Dear Perl Monks, Handling of soft links when the contents of the directory (links + files + subdirectories) are copied into another directory. i am able to copy the files & subdirectories into another directory but i dont know how to copy the link as the path of the link changes. before copying, add_d -> /home/operation/test/oper1/ now if the directory is changed to id1 add_d -> /home/operation/test/oper1/id1 I am working on clearcase project .i have not shown creating of directories & copying of the clearcase files. i have pasted only that part of the code which involves copying of link files. 
my $desti_dir = $ARGV[0] ; # destination directory.
my @list_view_pri = ClearCase::CtCmd::exec("ls -view_only");
my @viewPri = split("\n",$list_view_pri[1]);
foreach my $view (@viewPri) {
if(-l $view) {
my $where = readlink("$view");
my $dir = $where."/$desti_dir "
symlink($view,$dir) || die "Cannot symlink";
}
else {
system("mv $view $desti_dir"); #move other files
}

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