You might get a "permission denied" error if the directory for the target doesn't exist. In other worlds, if in 
$newlocation = "/perl/ass/$folder[$N]/$logfiles[$hour]";

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the directory 
$newlocationdir = "/perl/ass/$folder[$N]";

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doesn't exist.

You can use mkpath in File::Path (a standard module, so you should already have it on your system) to create it, just in case, before moving the file: 

use File::Path 'mkpath';
use File::Copy 'move';
mkpath "/perl/ass/$folder[$N]";
move($oldlocation, $newlocation) or die "File cannot be moved: $!";

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Note that there is no error checking for mkpath, because it may fail if the directory already exists. It doesn't matter. But the directory should exist after mkpath, so a test with -d "/perl/ass/$folder[$N]" would not be a bad idea.

In reply to Re^4: Perl Permissions by bart
in thread Perl Permissions by blundell

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