How to copy files from one directory to another?

[prasadrallabandi]

Hello every one,

my question is how to copy from one directory to another directory (Windows)?

clearly:

c:\perl> present working directory

I have to copy all the text files(*.txt), lets take 5 files from d:\textfile\ directory to e:\copied\ directory.

note: all are different directories.

please help me asap

Thanks in advance
Prasad

[bytesonfire]

Try this
File::Copy

[prasadrallabandi]

Try this
File::Copy

Thanks for the replay its not working..

error: file cant be find.

files are there even though iam getting

copy command iam using
copy ("C:/prasad/SONGS/songs/movie_list/*.txt",, "C:/prasad/SONGS/temp/radio/create/");

[bytesonfire]

Thanks for the replay its not working..

error: file cant be find.

files are there even though iam getting

copy command iam using
copy ("C:/prasad/SONGS/songs/movie_list/*.txt",, "C:/prasad/SONGS/temp/radio/create/");

If you want to copy multiple file use File::Glob to get all the files. After that do a foreach on that arry to copy all files one by one.

otherwise you can simply use copy command in backticks (`) or within system command.

[ahgan]

If you do not want to use additional library, you can use the conventional opendir/readdir functions to read in all the files into array, then use the foreach loop and system command to copy the file into the destination folder.

use strict;
use warnings;
 
my $pwd = "C:\\perl";
my $destination = "D:\\textfile";
 
opendir(DIR,"$pwd") or die "Cannot open $pwd\n";
my @files = readdir(DIR);
closedir(DIR);
 
foreach my $file (@files) {
    next if ($file !~ /\.txt$/i);  # filtered only file with extension .txt
    system("copy \"$pwd\\$file\" \"$destination\""); 
}

The additional (\") in the system command is to make sure the command line takes in the space as part of the directory path name.

[KevinADC]

Please do not provide code to people that show no effort to first solve their own coding problems, especially simple ones like this.

[ahgan]

Oops... my bad. Will take note of that.

[rinku james]

if you want copy one directory which contain many subfolders and files and other types then this command is used
xcopy d:\mainfiles c:\rinku /e /i /h