Lol, yes, I discovered this omitting the parens with use vs require, that's an issue that actually had made me give up initially on pulling the File::Find into a local require rather than a global use, that came about from using code I didn't understand copied from the interweb, but once I finally figured out why find was failing, I learned my lesson, and now do not omit parens even when I can with a few exceptions to keep things maintainable and readable.