Thanks for the help with getting the "glob".
Duh! on my part. Now that I can see the dirs that I want to
search. I need to look into the subdir to see if I want to move it to testdir2.
So the first file in each dir that I want to mv to testdir2 will be similar
to:
12635L1_LacZ.SEE.rc_G03_2008-12-01.ab1
12635L1_pgK.Neo.2fw_H03_2008-12-01.ab1
12635L1_SD_F03_2008-12-01.ab1
12635L1_SU_E03_2008-12-01.ab1 The dir could start with anyone of them based on the regex. This is a unique file naming convention.
Now that I have the $topdir should I do another foreach to read through the dirs?

In reply to Re^4: mv files from dir1 to dir2 by lomSpace
in thread mv files from dir1 to dir2 by lomSpace

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