If you look at the code snippet I posted, you'll see that I did not redirect the output of "find" to /dev/null -- as pointed out in the other replies above, that's why your array remained empty.

One other point: now that you're pushing entries into an array, you'll probably want to use chomp -- e.g. like this:

open(my $find,"|-:utf8","find /usr/local/bin -type f") or die "find fa
+iled: $!\n";

while( <$find> ){
  chomp;
  push @array, $_;
}
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or leave out the while loop and chomp the whole array, like this:

open( my $find, ... ) # (same as above, without redirecting to "/dev/n
+ull")
my @array = <$find>;  # reads all lines into array
chomp @array;         # strips linefeeds from all array elements
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