in reply to Perl wildcards in the file paths

Most likely you want to use readdir (together with opendir) or glob:

my $dir = '/home/aleksandra/programu-testavimas/1-dk/trunk/tests/input +s'; opendir my $dh, $dir or die "Couldn't read '$dir': $!"; my @files = map { "$dir/$_" } grep { $_ ne '.' and $_ ne '..' } readdir( $dh ); print "Found files:"; print "$_\n" for @files;