my @elf_files = system("ls"); #or backtiks

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Your code doesn't do what you think it does. See Why can't I get the output of a command with system()?. Tutorials->Getting Started with Perl/Basic debugging checklist. Basic debugging could have simply been printing the values before you used them. In the chatterbox Corion provided you with a solution reporting the command actually being run on failure.

Adding:

use strict;
use warnings;

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generates:

Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at ./derp.pl
+ line 8.
readelf: Warning: Nothing to do.

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Rather than just:

readelf: Warning: Nothing to do.

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You code doesn't cater for all use cases, e.g. if there's a sub directory:

readelf: Error: 'ffmpeg_sources' is not an ordinary file

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You should consider not shelling out and just using perl to handle this, opendir, readdir, grep, or modules like Path::Tiny which provide simpler ways of doing this.

Update: for completeness, the only line of code offered in the chatterbox was:

system("readelf -sW $var | awk '{print \$NF}'");

In reply to Re: system call error by marto
in thread system call error by testing_account

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