Hello all, I wanted to recursively copy the contents of a directory(both directory and files) from one folder to the other. I have this code which tries to do that, but it copies the files as folders which is not correct. Can anybody tell me how to fix this ?I dont want to use any CPAN module for this. 
#!/usr/bin/perl

 

$startDir = q{c:\test};
$newDir = q{c:\new};

&myReadDir($startDir);

exit 0; 


sub myReadDir
{

        my ($dir) = @_;

    print "\n\nProcessing $dir \n" ;

        my (@dirs,$list);

        opendir(DIR,$dir) || warn "can't open the directory $dir: $!\n
+";
        #@dirs=grep {!(/^\./) && -d "$dir\\$_"} readdir(DIR);        
        @dirs=grep {!(/^\./)} readdir(DIR);        
        closedir (DIR);

        for $list(0..$#dirs)
        {               
               print "list = $list\n" ;
               mkdir ($newDir) unless -d $newDir;
               #mkdir ($newDir) ;
               $ndir = $dir;
               $ndir =~ s/c:\\test/c:\\new/;
               print $ndir."\\".$dirs[$list],"\n";
               mkdir ($ndir."\\".$dirs[$list]);
              &myReadDir($dir."\\".$dirs[$list]);
        }

        return 1;

}

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In reply to copy files and directories recursively by aloknath521

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