In all cases the functions work from @ARGV rather than taking arguments.

Thanks I have no Idea what that means :) could you give me an example?

OH I see like this: perl -MExtUtils::Command -e touch test.txt ; Thanks I must need more coffee today!

use Path::Tiny qw/ path /; eval { path( $foo )->touch; 1 } or path( $foo )->touchpath;

use Shell::Command qw/ touch /; touch ( @files );

AHH thanks I was hoping not to add any dependencies for this and ExtUtils::Command is installed. I did get path::tiny to work:

#!/usr/bin/perl
package Debug;
use strict ;
use warnings ;
&test_pt;
sub test_ex { 
use ExtUtils::Command;
 my ( $path ) = @_ ;
 my ($file, $count);
 my @files = ('test.txt','test-1.txt');
 foreach $file (@files) {
  if ($path) {$file = "$path/$file"}
  $count++;
  print "$file\n";
  ExtUtils::Command::touch $file || ($count--, print "$file not update
+d\n") ;
  }
  print "$count files updated\n";
}

sub test_pt {
use Path::Tiny qw/ path /;
 my ( $path ) = @_ ;
 my ($file, $count);
 my @files = ('test.txt','test-1.txt');
 foreach $file (@files) {
  if ($path) {$file = "$path/$file"}
  $count++;
  print "$file\n";
  path( $file )->touchpath  || ($count--, print "$file not updated\n")
+ ;
  }
  print "$count files updated\n";
}
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Oh well not going to be a big deal to add it Thanks!