I'm stumped, have tried a few different things (such as changing path names, creating dirs first, using "rename" instead of "move"), but I simply CANNOT get this script to work.
It does not die.

As is fairly obvious from the script, I am trying to move a bunch of mp3s (all in their own subdirs) to a new subdir. Each list is contained in a file named mp3s1-9.

For example "/home/ftp/pub/mp3/nin/nine_inch_nails_fixed_06_screaming_slave.mp3 to /home/ftp/pub/mp3/mp3s7_dir/nin/nine_inch_nails_fixed_06_screaming_slave.mp3"

This is in preparation for a whole whack of backup-burning. I can't see the problem
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use File::Copy; #rather than renaming
my $path = "/home/ftp/pub/mp3s/"; #just in case move needs a full path
chdir $path;
my @lists = <mp3s?>;
foreach (@lists){   
    open (FH, $_) || die "Could not read file :$!"; 
    my $dir = $_ . "_dir"; 
    mkdir $dir;  #dir that we want to move the files into
    while (<FH>){ 
        chomp;
        my $orig = $_;
        s!/.*/(.*/.*)!$1!; #keep last dir + file name in new dir
        my $dest = $path . $dir . "/" . $_;
        move $orig,$dest || 
            die "Could not move $orig to $dest: $!";
    }
}

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If I add a print right before the move, $orig and $dest print out correctly.
The dirs do get created properly, and the script does not die. This was a chunk of a larger script that was going to move a chunk once size limit was reached, but because of the problems I had, I moved this portion to this script.

In reply to Moving? by the_slycer

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