in reply to Best way to append bigger files

open ( my $d , ">>", "dest" ) or die "Could not open destination file +: $!\n"; open ( my $s, "<", "source" ) or die "Could not open source file: $!\n +"; while(<$s>){ chomp; print {$d} $_,$/; } close $s or die "can't close file:$!"; close $d or die "can't close file:$!";