my $Spath='c:/cluster1/'; opendir(H, "$Spath")|| die "Error:$!\n"; dir_search(*H,"$Spath"); sub dir_search{ local(*ROOT)=$_[0]; my $path=$_[1]; print "path $path\n"; my $cont; foreach $cont (sort readdir(ROOT)){ print " $path$cont\n"; next if $cont eq '.' or $cont eq '..'; next if -l "$path$cont"; if (-f "$path$cont"){ &log("$path$cont") if (-T "$path$cont" || -u "$path$cont"); } elsif (-d "$path$cont" && opendir(D,"$path$cont")) { dir_search(*D,"$path$cont"); # dir_search(*D,"$path$cont/"); <<-- this / is what you need } } }