Hi,
As someone else noted, you need to pass strings to your input arguments, so you should use "=s" in the GetOptions hash.
Your second problem is that your first directory ("/home/jlk/tmp/data/stuff/archive/$clientname") is being created with no RWX permissions at all, even for the user. Hence no sub-directories or files can be created or of course stat'd (you can't stat what doesn't exist :) So change the mask to something more reasonable, or just leave the default (don't pass a second arg to mkdir). Finally, a work of advice- you're working too hard :-) To make a directory tree, use the mkpath function from the File::Path module, e.g.: 
use File::Path;
my $base_dir="/home/jlk/tmp/data/stuff/archive/$clientname";
mkpath(["$base_dir/tmp",
        "$base_dir/not_proc",
        "$base_dir/enc_arch_files/incoming"
       ], 0, 0755);

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Does this help?
Regards,
Offer K.

In reply to Re: Need help with script to create directories by Anonymous Monk
in thread Need help with script to create directories by jlk

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