problem is that file names with spaces cause this line to fail

Show your failing code. I suspect your directory reading code to cause the problem. Did you check that $groupFile actually holds the file name with embedded spaces? This works for me: 

use File::Copy;
use Cwd;

my $file = 'foo bar';
my $dest = 'dest dir';
my $cwd  = getcwd();
my $src  = "$cwd/$file";

open my $fh, '>', $file or die "Can't write '$file': $!\n";
close $fh;

mkdir $dest or die "Can't mkdir '$dest': $!\n";
copy ($src, $dest) or die "Can't copy '$src' to '$dest': $!\n";

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Also, don't interpolate single variables. Don't say copy ("$groupFile","$errDir"), say copy ($groupFile, $errDir)

In reply to Re: how to copy files with spaces in name by shmem
in thread how to copy files with spaces in name by ric.techow

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