I have opened, read from, and written to files using PERL in the past. Now I think I am doing the same thing but the open states the below answers.

Found "linux_complete_command_set.txt"
Unable to open linux_complete_command_set.txt: No such file or directo
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Below is the code. The file exists within the same directory where I am running the PERL file hence the "./". I tried running the file without the ./ with the same results.

#! /usr/bin/perl -w

use v5.14.2;
use strict;

my $file = "linux_complete_command_set.txt";

if ( -e "$file" ) {
    print "\"Found $file\"\n";
}

open ( FH0, '<./$file' ) or die "Unable to open $file: $!\n";
while ( <FH0> ) {
    print "$_\n";
}

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In reply to perl can find the file but can not open the file by ShermW0829

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