Feed the output from localtime into an appropriately crafted call to strftime from the core POSIX module.

lomSpace: -- because...

You're getting great help on most of your questions but you may benefit by reading On asking for help and How do I post a question effectively?... and by applying the answers you've been given to previous questions to your latest difficulty before posting a redundant question.

For example, zentara has given you a rather extensive answer about grep in response to your mv files from dir1 to dir2; ikegami offers an answer (above) in this thread which you appear to have ignored; and your response -- "Not clear what this is supposed to do?" -- to gasho's Re: mv files from dir1 to dir2 seems indicative of an excess (by local standards) willingness to say 'Do this for me' rather than "I tried ... (along the lines suggested) and got this (unexpected) result."

It may also be well to read Markup in the Monastery which provides samples of PM markup -- many of which would serve to make your posts more readable than your repetitive use of <br>. (Hints: <p>...</p> would be a good fit here, while <ol><li>...</li> <li>...</li>...</ol> would make Processing data in on dir and copying, then processing into another dir far more easily readable.)

I humbly accept the advice. I have not intentionally ignored Ikegami.
I immediately started testing it in my code.

I will be consistent about mentioning what
I have attempted and the subsequent results.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use POSIX 'strftime';
#my $date = strftime "%x_%T", localtime;

my $date = strftime "%x", localtime;
$date =~ tr#/#-#;
print "$date\n";
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my $date = strftime "%x", localtime;
$date =~ tr#/#-#;
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If you want a specific format, why don't you use that format instead of munging the "national representation of the date"? It doesn't even work (I get "2009-01-14").

Fix:

use POSIX qw( strftime );
my $date = strftime "%m-%d-%y", localtime;
print "$date\n";
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But since he didn't ask for the date, he'd want

my $dir = strftime "Results %m-%d-%y", localtime;
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That was very helpful! Thanks!

I truly appreciate you sharing your wisdom. I will be taking
a perl course next month at the LearningTree.
That should plug up some holes.

Some advice: you learn more by trying to find answers yourself. Then if all else fails, ask here. Searching google and groups.google.com will give you all the answers you probably need as a beginner. Search google for "perl grep files" or "perl grep directories", etc. All we do here, is repeat what was already answered many times before, and is stored in google.(or the searchbox/tutorials here at perlmonks)

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Thanks, but how do I filter a list of dirs based on the date?

You don't need to filter when you already know the exact file name.

I need to filter a glob based on the current date. I only want the most current dirs.
Ex. today is 01-14-09. I only want that part of the glob. How do you grep that?

What have you tried?