Hi guys, I am teaching myself perl and I'm working on an exercise that I'm particularly stumped on. The task is to write a perl script that accepts a valid directory as an argument. Using the argument passed, change into the given directory. Once inside, create two more directories. I've written this exact same script using BASH before and it worked perfectly. I'm just trying to figure out where I'm going wrong because as of right now, the script does nothing. Here's what I have: 
#!/usr/bin/perl

#Script to create required directories in user provided location argum
+ent.

my $Dir = $ARGV[0];

if(! -e "$Dir") {
print "Please try again with a valid directory.\n";
exit 1;
}
elsif(! -d "$Dir") {
print "Please try again with a valid directory.\n";
exit 1;
}
elsif(($#ARGV+1) < 1) {
print "Please try again with a valid directory.\n";
exit 1;
}

#Change to user selected location
chdir($Dir);

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