Why doesnt't this work?!?! I want to populate the file /tmp/err_list with the name of each file in /dir that starts with 'error'. I can't see what I'm doing wrong. The file /tmp/err_list gets created but is always empty but there are files the match the pattern. 
&Fill_List("/dir/error*", "/tmp/err_list");

sub Fill_List {
        $mask = shift;
        $file = shift;

        open (list, "> $file");
        open (infile, "`ls $file|`");

        $debug && warn "ls $mask\n";

        while (<infile>) {
                print list $_ . "\n";
        }
        close(infile);
        close (list);
}

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