To move a file, use the File::Copy module, but make sure the move worked by looking at the return value. To check if a file exists somewhere, use the -f FILENAME builtin. To go over all the files, use for. Putting it all together: 

use File::Copy;

our $VERBOSE = 1; # turn this off if you don't need the verbose messag
+es

for my $file (@files) {
    if (-f "old/$file") {
        print "old/$file -> new/$file\n" if $VERBOSE;
        move("old/$file", "new/.") or die "move: old/$file: $!";
    }
}

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Note that if this encounters an error, it'll stop in the middle. Maybe in your application it's more right to push the erring filename to a @failed array and then print them all, retry, whatever. I don't know; it's just something to think about.

Also, I've assumed "/" is a correct filepath separator and in most cases it is, but if you want to write really portable code you'll want to look into File::Spec.

In reply to Re: writtings files to a new folder by gaal
in thread writtings files to a new folder by heidi

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