note linuxer <p>Welcome here and to Perl. <p>If you read User input like that, you must know, that the linebreak will also be stored in your variable. So you must remove it; see [doc://chomp] for details. <p><c>chomp( my $dir = <STDIN> );</c> <p>Each statement should be completed with a ';', your <c>chdir</c> misses one. <p>You should check if <c>chdir</c> was successful and do something if it wasn't (<c>$!</c> contains the system's error message). <p><c>chdir( $dir ) or die "$dir: $!\n";</c> <p>If you already changed into <c>$dir</c>, you must not specify it again in the glob pattern. <p>As you are using [doc://strict], you need to declare each new variable. You did it right with <c>$dir</c>, but not with <c>@files</c>. 780393 780393