See the rename documentation. Renaming a file also works across directories. It does not work across drive letters or volumes. If you need to "move" the file across volumes, you need to use File::Copy to copy the file and then unlink to delete it.

Thanks, but the problem I have is referencing the file on the server as this is diferent from the server I am running the script on, this is my move statement at the moment:

use Win32::ODBC;
use File::Copy;

 move ("http://wwwdev/streams/$Config{'Author'}/$Config{'Ref'}", "http
+://wwwybs/ybsone/pipeline/master/13Apr/$Config{'Ref'}") or die "move 
+failed: S!";
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Have I referenced the file names in the right way (i.e. is http://wwwdev/streams' the correct way to refer to the file)?

This currently fails for reasons that I don't know.

I'm not on wwwdev when I run the script BTW.

The HTTP protocol cannot move or write files. Your idea cannot work. You need to have access to the file system of the target machine.

Maybe you can use UNC names like this:

my $machine = 'wwwdev';
my $sharename = 'wwwshare';
my $source = "\\\\$machine\\$sharename\\source\\directory\\filename.tx
+t";
my $target = "\\\\$machine\\$sharename\\target\\directory\\new_filenam
+e.txt";
rename $source, $target
    or die "Couldn't move '$source' to '$target' : $!";
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