Hi,I am very new to PERL.I have been confusing so far regarding directories.I mean,suppose if I run the below code 

 #!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;

opendir DH, "." or die "couldn't ope $!";

while ($_ = readdir(DH)) {
    next if $_ eq "." or $_ eq ".." ;
    print $_, " " x (30 - length($_));
    print "d" if -d $_;
    print "r" if -r _;
    print "w" if -w _;
    print "x" if -x _;
    print "o" if -o _;
    print "\t";
    print -s _ if -r _ and -f _;
    print "\n";
}

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I am getting proper output as file-names ,permission and their sizes. But whenever I had change "opendir" as

 opendir DH, "/home/gaurav/Documents" or die "couldn't open:  $!";

I have been getting only file-names,neither permissions nor file-size. Any-one can help me regarding this.Thanks in Advance

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