use Carp;

##</code><code>##

opendir (DIR, $path) or croak "Unable to open $path: $!\n";

##</code><code>##

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Carp;

sub processFiles {
  my $path = shift;
  opendir (DIR, $path) or croak "Unable to open $path: $!";
  my @files = readdir (DIR);
  closedir (DIR);
  foreach my $myfile (@files) {
     print "Files: $myfile\n";
  }
 }

 print "$0 started at " . (localtime) . "\n";
 processFiles(@ARGV);
 print "$0 finished at " . (localtime) . "\n";