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How to remove directories by identifying with its file name(i.e rev.config)?

I wrote the following code to copy the files from one directory to another diorectory.Now i like to remove the some directories in the destination folder wherever the file(rev.config) includes.the folder which includes rev.config those folders should be removed using perl?Help me fix it

use File::Copy       qw( copy);
use File::Find::Rule qw( );
use File::Path       qw( make_path );
my $input_dir  = '/home/rpiasa/DMS_DEMO/project_space';
my $output_dir = '/home/rpiasa/output/project_space';

my %created;

for my $in (
   File::Find::Rule
   ->file()
   ->name(qr/^[^.].*\.config$/)
   ->in($input_dir)
) {
   my $match_file = substr($in, length($input_dir) + 1); 
   my ($match_dir) = $match_file =~ m{^(.*)/} ? $1 : '.';
   #print $match_dir,"\n";
   my $out_dir = $output_dir . '/' . $match_dir;
   my $out     = $output_dir . '/' . $match_file;
   make_path($out_dir) if !$created{$out_dir}++;
   copy($in, $out);

}
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Hello finddata15!

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I disagree with it because code i wrote for bio informatics project.Am using perl .In bio informatics perl is used.Then why shouldnt try it here.

Because this same code is not doing anything specific to bioinformatics, it's just plain programming.

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