Well i found out what was in the parts, PERLIO filehandles

and i found the MAGIC SPELL http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3196783/perl-file-upload-cant-init-filehandle File upload forms need to specify enctype="multipart/form-data". ----- Sinan Ünür

Ubuntu tested code (well at least with $tostdout=1).

AND Notice how the filename starts with a folder! 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI;
use Data::Dumper;
  use HTML::Entities            qw/encode_entities/;

my $q = CGI->new();
print $q->header;

unless ($q->param('multi_files')) { 
print '
<html>
    <head>
        <title>Stupid Test Site</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <h1>This is a test</h1>
        
        <form action="multiupload.pl"  enctype="multipart/form-data". 
+method="POST">
            Your Name: <input type="text" name="name"><br>
            Email Address: <input type="text" name="email"><br>
            Select PO folder: <input name="multi_files" type="file" we
+bkitdirectory multiple /><br/>
            Comments:<br>
            <textarea name="comments" rows="5" cols="60"></textarea><b
+r>
            <input type="submit" value="Send">
        </form>
    </body>
</html>
'; 
exit; 
} 

my $upload_folder = '/var/www/html/uploads';

my $name = $q->param('name');
my $email = $q->param('email');

my $comments = $q->param('comments');

my @files = $q->param('multi_files');

my $tostdout=1; 

###### see 
###### http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3196783/perl-file-upload-can
+t-init-filehandle
###### File upload forms need to specify enctype="multipart/form-data"
+.  ----- Sinan Ünür 
my @io_handles=$q->upload('multi_files');

print '<pre>'; 
print Dumper(\@files); 
print Dumper(\@io_handles); 
print '</pre>'; 
print '<br>step0';

for my $upload (@files){
    print "<br>Upload this please -- $upload<br>";
    if ($upload){
        eval { 
           if ($tostdout) { 
             print '<pre>' ; 
             while ( my $buffer  = <$upload>) {
               print STDOUT  encode_entities($buffer);
             } # while 
             print '</pre>' ; 
           } # tostdout 
           else { 
             open (OUTFILE,">$upload_folder/$upload") or die $!;;
             binmode OUTFILE;
             while ( my $buffer  = <$upload>) {
               print OUTFILE $buffer;
             } # while 
             close OUTFILE; 
           } # notstdout 
          };  # eval 
     print 'error:'.$@.'<br>' if $@; 
    } # upload 
    else {
        print "<br><b>Guess it's broken</b><br/>";
    } # else 
} # $upload 

print "<p><b>Name</b> -- $name<br><b>Email</b> -- $email<br><b>Comment
+s</b> -- $comments<br>";

print $q->end_html;

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Result 
$VAR1 = [
          bless( \*{'Fh::fh00001multiuploads/a.txt'}, 'Fh' ),
          bless( \*{'Fh::fh00002multiuploads/Copy of a.txt'}, 'Fh' ),
          bless( \*{'Fh::fh00003multiuploads/Copy (2) of a.txt'}, 'Fh'
+ )
        ];
$VAR1 = [
          bless( \*{'Fh::fh00001multiuploads/a.txt'}, 'Fh' ),
          bless( \*{'Fh::fh00002multiuploads/Copy of a.txt'}, 'Fh' ),
          bless( \*{'Fh::fh00003multiuploads/Copy (2) of a.txt'}, 'Fh'
+ )
        ];


step0
Upload this please -- multiuploads/a.txt

this is a.txt


Upload this please -- multiuploads/Copy of a.txt

this is a.txt


Upload this please -- multiuploads/Copy (2) of a.txt

this is a.txt

Name -- a
Email -- b
Comments -- ok

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In reply to Re: CGI, uploading multiple files by huck
in thread CGI, uploading multiple files by edimusrex

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