in reply to How do I move array contents into a directory?

foreach my $file (@the_files) {move ($here, $there)}

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You should check for success. Always. Always! 

foreach my $file (@the_files) {
    move ($here, $there) 
        or die "something weird happened moving '$here' to '$there': $
+!\n"
}

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