I need to encode files to utf-16 and then move to destination. Moving files is done but how to encode the files? 
#!/usr/bin/perl
 
use warnings;
use strict;
use File::Copy;
 
my $srcdir = "C:\\ROOT_DIR\\1\\";
my $dest = "C:\\ROOT_DIR\\2\\";
my (@files);
for (;;) { 
    opendir(DIR, $srcdir) or die "Can't open $srcdir: $!";
    @files = grep {!/^\.+$/} readdir(DIR);
    close(DIR);
 
    if (!@files) {
        print "Done.\n\n";
        last;
    }
 
    my $file = $files[0];
    my $old = "$srcdir/$file";
 
    move($old, $dest) or die "Move $old -> $dest failed: $!";
    print "File Name: $file 5 seconds til next.\n\n";
    sleep 5;
}

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I found script to encode files to utf-16 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

binmode(STDOUT, ':raw:encoding(UTF-16)');
for my $qfn (@ARGV) {
   open(my $fh, "<:raw:encoding(UTF-8)", $qfn)
      or die("Can't open \"$qfn\": $!\n");

   print while <$fh>;
}

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I'm unable to combine those scripts together.

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