You are kidding right? Try this (you type it at the command prompt - Start|Run|cmd.exe):
C:\>copy /?
Copies one or more files to another location.
COPY [/V] [/N] [/Y | /-Y] [/Z] [/A | /B ] source [/A | /B]
[+ source [/A | /B] [+ ...]] [destination [/A | /B]]
source Specifies the file or files to be copied.
/A Indicates an ASCII text file.
/B Indicates a binary file.
destination Specifies the directory and/or filename for the new fil
+e(s).
/V Verifies that new files are written correctly.
/N Uses short filename, if available, when copying a file
+with a
non-8dot3 name.
/Y Suppresses prompting to confirm you want to overwrite a
+n
existing destination file.
/-Y Causes prompting to confirm you want to overwrite an
existing destination file.
/Z Copies networked files in restartable mode.
The switch /Y may be preset in the COPYCMD environment variable.
This may be overridden with /-Y on the command line. Default is
to prompt on overwrites unless COPY command is being executed from
within a batch script.
To append files, specify a single file for destination, but multiple f
+iles
for source (using wildcards or file1+file2+file3 format).
C:\>
So to do it just type (say this) at the command prompt:
copy blabla.jpg c:\games
copy .\*.jpg c:\all_jpegs
The DOT dir is the current dir and * is a wildcard that matches anything so .\*.jpg means match anything in the current directory that ends in .jpg. You can call shell from perl like this using backtics
#!/usr/bin/perl
`copy blabla.jpg c:\\games`;
NOTE you need 2 backslashes everyhwere you want a single backslash because of the special nature of the \ char in strings ie \n is a newline and \\ is a literal backslash.
You can also use the File::Copy module which has the advantage of working across operating systems although somehow I don't see that as a likely issue for you.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use File::Copy;
copy( 'file1', 'file2' );
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