There is no need to backslash spaces in path in Perl. Also, using while when you call readdir in list context and the only thing you do in the loop is last is unorthodox.

Also note that readdir returns the file names, but you have to prefix the path to them. Also, you only want to open files, not subdirectories, so I used grep to filter those out. 

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

my $path = '/Users/Maxi/Desktop/Verzeichnis beispiel';

opendir my $DIR, $path or die " the directory couldn't be opened\n";

my @folder = grep -f "$path/$_", readdir $DIR;

for my $file (@folder) {
    open my $FIL ,'<', "$path/$file" or die "the file $file couldn't b
+e opened: $!\n";
    while (<$FIL>) {
        print if /perl/i;
    }
}

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In reply to Re: working with directories by choroba
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