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It looks to me like the file hadn't been opened yet in the first invocation, so M doesn't exist.

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Re: Re: A slight variation in warn output... why?
by isotope (Deacon) on Jul 30, 2003 at 17:55 UTC 
        open (M, "tail +3 $_ |") or die $!; 
    # Do you mean $file instead of $_ here?

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    Update: I know it doesn't look like it should make much difference, but might as well rule out a possible scoping issue with $_ first. Speaking of scoping, I meant to reply to the OP. Oh well.

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