You open LOCAL, but then write to OUT.

    open (LOCAL, ">$dir$file") or dieNicely("Unable to upload: $!");
    while (read($file, $i, 1024)) {
        print LOCAL $i;
    }
    close (LOCAL);
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print map { my ($m)=1<<hex($_)&11?' ':'';
$m.=substr('AHJPacehklnorstu',hex($_),1) }
split //,'2fde0abe76c36c914586c';
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