#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
sub processFiles {
  my $path = shift;
  opendir (DIR, $path) or die "Unable to open $path: $!";
  my @files = grep { !/^\.{1,2}$/} 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";