Please advise why this script will not work. It gives me messages saying it is not a directory or "File does not open: Permission denied at..." Yet I have all the permissions and I can open the directory and files with all other scripts. I have tried "open" and "opendir" but cant get this to work?? I have tried on Solaris and Windows NT. 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
@files = glob('/perl/bin/dir');

foreach $db (@files)
{
opendir(DATA, "$db") or die "File does not open: $!";
@data = (<DATA>);
close (DATA);
open(DATA, ">$db") or die "File not open: $!";

foreach $line (@data)
{
$line =~ s/<meta name\=\"/<meta name\=\"area\./gi;
print DATA $line;
}
close(DATA);
}

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