Reference: copy
Author: Ellen Siever, Stephen Spainhour & Nathan Patwardhan
Date: 1999-07-02T01:47:03Z

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| Chapter 8 Standard Modules |

## copy

    copy (source, dest[, buffsize])

Copies source to dest. Takes the following arguments:

source

  The source string, FileHandle reference, or FileHandle glob. If source is a filehandle, it is read from; if it's a filename, the filehandle is opened for reading.

dest

  The destination string, FileHandle reference, or FileHandle glob. dest is created if necessary and written to.

buffsize

  Specifies the size of the buffer to be used for copying. Optional.

8.71 File::Copy |  | Reference: cp