You need the full path to the file. If you checked for the error with -M $fileName || die "Can't stat $fileName, Perl say $!\n" it would say No such file or directory You can check errors in $! for all sorts or perl functions open, mkdir, unlink and -X are just a few where it may (or may not) be useful.

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tachyon

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