G'day ObiPanda,

The glob() doco shows some special cases of using single and double quotes. You should tell us if you're dealing with such special cases.

I see nothing in File::Copy where move() takes an arrayref as a first argument.

I created some dummy files under ~/tmp/pm_11154302_move_files and a test script, move_to_phone.pl, to show usage.

#!/usr/bin/env perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use File::Copy 'move';

my ($src, $dest) = qw{Temp Phone};

mv_tmp_to_phone($src, $dest);

sub mv_tmp_to_phone {
    my ($src, $dest) = @_;

    system ls => '-lR';

    my @files = glob("$src/*");

    print "$_\n" for @files;

    move($_, $dest) for @files;

    system ls => '-lR';
}
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Here's a sample run:

ken@titan ~/tmp/pm_11154302_move_files
$ ./move_to_phone.pl
.:
total 1
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ken None 337 Sep  8 18:05 move_to_phone.pl
drwxr-xr-x 1 ken None   0 Sep  8 17:49 Phone
drwxr-xr-x 1 ken None   0 Sep  8 17:50 Temp

./Phone:
total 0

./Temp:
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 ken None 0 Sep  8 17:50 file1
-rw-r--r-- 1 ken None 0 Sep  8 17:50 file2
Temp/file1
Temp/file2
.:
total 1
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ken None 337 Sep  8 18:05 move_to_phone.pl
drwxr-xr-x 1 ken None   0 Sep  8 18:05 Phone
drwxr-xr-x 1 ken None   0 Sep  8 18:05 Temp

./Phone:
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 ken None 0 Sep  8 17:50 file1
-rw-r--r-- 1 ken None 0 Sep  8 17:50 file2

./Temp:
total 0
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Please try something along those lines. If it doesn't work for you, advise us of sample filenames. An SSCCE would greatly help if you need further assistance.

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