in reply to capturing terminal directory relative path?

I agree that File::Basename is the robust way to do what you need. But maybe the below code is something you might want to consider as well.
#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; while (<DATA>) { print + (split( /\// ))[-1] if /\d+/; } __DATA__ /home/BORK/work/test-backfills/cp_test /home/BORK/work/test-backfills/cp_test/82468 /home/BORK/work/test-backfills/cp_test /home/BORK/work/test-backfills/cp_test/82480 /home/BORK/work/test-backfills/cp_test /home/BORK/work/test-backfills/cp_test/82485 /home/BORK/work/test-backfills/cp_test /home/BORK/work/test-backfills/cp_test/82490 /home/BORK/work/test-backfills/cp_test /home/BORK/work/test-backfills/cp_test/82767 /home/BORK/work/test-backfills/cp_test /home/BORK/work/test-backfills/cp_test/82802 /home/BORK/work/test-backfills/cp_test