Hi Zentara, I am using absolute paths. I have set up to testdir for testing this script. When I run the script the stdout is: GLOB(0x804cbdc) . .. RESULTS 2008 RESULTS 2009 RESULTS 2007 The glob should be the files that match from grep, but I nothing is being moved from 'testdir1' to 'testdir2'. 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;

# goes from current dir, and looks thru
# a subdir named 7, for subdirs starting with
# Jan_2009_,  then goes into that subdir and finds
# files begiining with a or b or c
# making your particular regexes is up to you
#opendir ( my $rs, "tarfs-orion/orion/Data/Sequencing_Results/RESULTS 
+2009");
my $topdir = "/home/mgavi/testdir1";
my @subdirs = get_sub_dirs($topdir);
my $newdir = "/home/mgavi/testdir2";

sub get_sub_dirs {
    my $dir = shift;
    opendir my $dh, $dir or die "Error: $!";
    print "$dh\n";
    my @dirs =  readdir $dh;
    print "@dirs\n";
    @dirs = grep /^Results(.*)$/,@dirs;
    closedir $dh;
    return @dirs;
}

print "@subdirs\n";

my @files;
foreach my $dir(@subdirs){
    opendir my $dh, "$topdir/$dir" or die "Error: $!";
    @files = readdir $dh;
    print "@files\n";
    @files = grep /^(\d+\D\d)_(LacZ|pgK|SD|SU)(.*)$/,@files;
    foreach my $file(@files){
    system( "mv $file $newdir/$file");
    }
    closedir $dh;
}

print "@files\n";

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