I am using File::Copy and I think I am either misreading the CPAN doc or missing something in my code. When I am copying files, ownership and permissions do not remain intact, but rather take on the ownership and permissions of the user running the script.
The docs talk about syscopy but since I am running the code on a unix variant (linux) I had thought that copy would suffice.
The code:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

use File::Copy;

my $from = "/root/yim";
my $to = "/root/perl/yim";

if ( -d $from ) {
  mkdir "$to";
}
opendir(DIR,"$from");
my @contents = readdir(DIR);
 for my $i(@contents) {
   if ( -f "$from/$i" ) {
     copy("$from/$i","$to/$i");
    }
 }
close(DIR);
print @contents;

[download]

In reply to Misinterpretation of File::Copy by c

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.