I need to mv files from dir1(/home/mydir/dir1/RESULTS 2008) to dir2 (/home/mydir/dir2)
When I run the script stdout shows the contents of /home/mydir/dir1/RESULTS 2008. That seems to work.
What is not working is the second part where the foreach should go through each subdir, which should be captured with
@files = grep /^(\d+\D\d)_(LacZ|pgK|SD|SU)(.*)$/,@files;
I don't see those files. Can't mv what you can't see. 
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_Result<br>/RESUL
+TS 2009");
my $topdir = "/home/mgavi/testdir1/RESULTS 2008";
my @subdirs = get_sub_dirs($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 = @subdirs\n";


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

    foreach my $file(@files){
        system( "mv $topdir/$dir/$file $newdir/$file");
    }
    closedir $dh;
}

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