use warnings; use strict; use Cwd qw(abs_path); use File::Find qw(find); die "no directory provided " unless defined $ARGV[0]; my $path = abs_path $ARGV[0]; find( \&search_all_folder, $path ); sub search_all_folder { chomp $_; return if $_ eq '.' or $_ eq '..'; read_files($_) if (-f); } sub read_files { my ($filename) = @_; open my $fh, '<', $filename or die "can't open file: $!"; while (<$fh>) { print $_, $/; } }