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Hi,
You should put your code inside <code> tags - it makes the code more readable. If not one has to look up the source of the webpage to get a readable format. You might consider reading Writeup Formatting Tips.

Trying to make sense of your code (put inside <code> tags): 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use File::Copy;
$dest="/home/dpavu2/users1/perl/sra/";
print "the source direcotry name:\n";
chomp(my $source = <STDIN>);
opendir(DIR, $sech $file(@files){

@files = grep { /\.log$/ } readdir (DIR);
foreach $file(@files){
}
closedir (DIR);

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i guess you were trying to do the following: 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use File::Copy;
use File::Spec;
my $dest="/home/dpavu2/users1/perl/sra/";
print "the source direcotry name: \n";
my $source = '';
chomp($source = <STDIN>);
if (opendir(my $DIR, $source)){
    my @files = grep { /\.log$/ } readdir ($DIR);
    foreach my $f (@files){
        my $src = File::Spec->catfile($source , $f);
        my $dst = File::Spec->catfile($dest , $f);
        copy($src , $dst) or die "Failed to copy $src to $dest ($!)\n"
+;
    }
    closedir ($DIR);
} else {
    warn "Failed to open '$source ' for reading ($!)\n";
}

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The Module File::Copy::Recursive is also quite practical when copying files. You should also always include 
use strict;
use warnings;

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directives at the beginning of your perl code. If you don't understand an error message then 
use diagnostics;

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might create error messages which make more sense to you.
Cheers Roland

In reply to Re: how to a specific group of files from source directory to destination directory by rminner
in thread how to a specific group of files from source directory to destination directory by asdfghjkl

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