This is a RTFM question but I'll bite anyways.

File::Copy was mentioned before. 
use File::Copy;

copy("oldfile", "newfile");

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So then all you need is the "dir". I noticed you are using system calls, that is unnecesary for these type of commands.

try the following 
my @files = <some\\path\\here\\*>; 
#the * means all files in that directory
#just in case you were confused.

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finally to delete a file use the following 
unlink($filename);

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If you want to set the context of your perl program to read from a particular directory without having to constantly put a $path + $filename then do the following 
chdir($path) or die "foo error message\n";
#now do some foo with $filename in this directory

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you just got served lol

In reply to Re: ActivePERL is the devil? by Grundle
in thread ActivePERL is the devil? by james734

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