use strict; use File::Copy; # yes, it is Windows XP and a drive letters assigned to a USB and a NAS drive. # Indir and outdir will be a parameter in this format. my $inDir = "M:\AllFiles"; my $outDir = "n:\allFiles"; # test 1 straight in out in DOS format. MoveFiles($inDir,$outDir); # test 2 Try within quotes. MoveFiles("$inDir","$outDir"); # test 3 Try selecting ALL files in the directory MoveFiles($inDir."\*", $outDir); sub MoveFiles { my ( $source, $destination ) = @_; print "indir= $source, outdir=$destination\n"; my $source_size = (-s "$source") || 0; my $destination_size = (-s $destination) || 0; print "indir size=$source_size outdir size=$destination_size\n"; }