This will get all files from the two directories, and place their contents into an array. You can always regex the @filep array for specific extensions after you are done getting the directory listings. 

$dir1 = "/foo/bar1"
$dir2 = "/foo/bar2"
@filep;
@fcontents;

get_dir($dir1);
get_dir($dir2);

for (@filep) {
my $fc = get_file($_);
push @fcontents, $fc;
}

print "@fcontents";

sub get_dir {
        my $dir = shift ;
        opendir(DIR, $dir) || die "Cannot open dir. $!" ;
        my @files = grep !/^\.\.?$/, readdir DIR ;
        closedir DIR;
        for (@files) {
             $fn = join '/', ($dir, $_); 
             push @filep, $fn;
        #return @filep ;
}

sub get_file {
     my $file = shift;
     local *IN;
     open (IN, "<$file") or die "Cannot read '$file': $!";
                if (wantarray) {
                return <IN>;
                } else {
                return join '', <IN>;
        }
}

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