I have so little experience with Perl I shouldn't even be attempting to write this script but it would be darn handy if I can make it work.

I'm trying to get the all of the files from a specific directory which contain 10.xx.11 and move them into another directory. The operation seems to go okay until Perl attempts to move the array elements. I get a "no such file or directory" message pointing to the line containing the move command. I know the directory exists at the correct location. Any help would be much appreciated.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use warnings;
use diagnostics;
use File::Copy;

my (@files) = ();
my ($file) = 0;
my ($directory) = "directory";
 
opendir (DIR, $directory) || die "could not open $directory: $!\n";
@files = grep {/^10/} readdir DIR;
closedir DIR;

print("You are moving the following files to another location\n");
foreach $file (@files) {
    print $file . "\n";
}
 
my ($newlocation) = "target";

foreach my $file (@files) {
    move($file, $newlocation) || die "could not move files: $!\n";
}

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In reply to No such file or directory when moving grep results by Matthew Tod

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