Hi all, I'm using the following code to move all the files from dir1 to dir2... 
perl -MFile::Find -MFile::Copy -we '
                     $dir1="/home/user/dir1";
                     $dir2="/home/user/dir2";
                     find(\&wanted, $dir1);
                     sub wanted { 
                 File::Copy::move( "$File::Find::dir/$_" , $dir2 );
                 }'

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... which works fine, but I wanted to optimize it by having _as many_ files as possible in the 'wanted' function, instead of moving the files on _one by one_ basis as the above code does ( as I understand it ). Something similar to this shell code, which moves the files all together in _one shot_ or at least in big chunks ...,

mv $( find . -type f ) /home/user/dir2/

Obviously the above code fails for file names with spaces in them ..., so I thought using Perl, but can't seem to find the right approach to insert _all_ of the files. Below is just an illustration of my idea:

File::Copy::move( "$File::Find::dir/*" , $dir2 ),  # a * instead of current file $_

Is this possible ? Thanks.

In reply to Optimizing files' moving with File::Find & File::Copy modules by Anonymous Monk

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