in reply to Can I get help with Perl glob for filtering a directory

Read File::Glob for finding out how you can find out what error glob() encounters:

...
if (File::Glob::GLOB_ERROR()) {
    # an error occurred
    print "Glob error: $!";
}

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Also, are you sure that /someDir/someFile exists? What is the output of ls /someDir/someFile on the command line?

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