You open a DIR handle but, as you encounter a folder you jump out of the process and reopen the same handle with another directory. it is not so logic. This was my first problem too using Perl (and we are in good company!) and this is also a Faq. Since that times i always use the tachyon's solution.

Try adding some print statements to see how things go on in your flow.
my $cwd = getcwd;
print "CWD:$cwd\n";

## Get files from cwd
my $res = _list_files($cwd);

sub _list_files {

        my $dir = shift;
        my $files = shift;
            print "GETTING:$dir\n";
        opendir(DIR, $dir) or die "Error opening: $dir\n";

        while (my $fn = readdir(DIR)) {

                ## skip hidden
                next if $fn =~ /^\./;

                ## file, fullpath name
                my $file = $dir . "/" . $fn;
                   print "FILE:$file\n";
                ## add
                push(@{ $files }, $file);

                ## dir, decend
                if (-d $file) {
                         print "DIR:$file\n";
                        ## sub-directory files
                        $files = _list_files($file, $files);
                }
        }

        closedir(DIR);

        return $files;
}

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In reply to Re: Descending a directory tree, returning a list of files by Discipulus
in thread Descending a directory tree, returning a list of files by Rodster001

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