I've wrote this code and would like to know how to improve it. It reads the file from one directory and copies them to another. It's really basic I know so I thought I'd better check Im doing it the right way. I tried use strict and that broke it, so thats one line of improvement, are there any more. 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -W # force taint checks, and print warnings
#use strict; # install all three strictures
use File::Copy;
$|++; # force auto flush of output buffer

#define full path to source folder
$path = "sourceDirectory";


#define  path to new folder
$newpath = "destinationDirectory";

#recursively search  $path for files


opendir (ORIG , $path);

while ($name = readdir(ORIG)){

print "$name\n" ;  
@Filenames;
push (@Filenames, $name);
#print " $newpathandfile\n";

}
closedir(ORIG);


chdir($path) || die "cannot move to $path";
foreach $X (@Filenames){
my $destFile = $newpath.$X;
print '$destFile'." = $destFile\n";
copy( "$X" , "$destFile" ) or print "File  cannot be copied. $!\n";
}

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In reply to Copying files between directories. How can I improve this code. by richill

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