Hm, your code worked for me. It seems that, for some reason, your script is getting 1 as the pathname. So, there are three files in the same directory as the dirrecur script? What are the permissions on those? You might want to do an ls -l . from the prompt to confirm they are there. (I beleive you, but it's occam's razor - eliminate the simple things first) :) You might also try putting the following statement below your use statements:
use Carp;

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and in the code, instead of die, use croak, like this (I added a carriage return at the end to make it more readable): 
opendir (DIR, $path) or croak "Unable to open $path: $!\n";

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That may give your more verbose information. I find it very useful in my code, as it gives a trace of the subroutine calls, values passed in, etc.

Update: here's the entire code, as it worked for me. I noticed that you had a typo in your die statement, too - it should be $!, not ! or 1. 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Carp;

sub processFiles {
  my $path = shift;
  opendir (DIR, $path) or croak "Unable to open $path: $!";
  my @files = readdir (DIR);
  closedir (DIR);
  foreach my $myfile (@files) {
     print "Files: $myfile\n";
  }
 }

 print "$0 started at " . (localtime) . "\n";
 processFiles(@ARGV);
 print "$0 finished at " . (localtime) . "\n";

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-- Burvil

In reply to Re^3: No Filenames Returned by bowei_99
in thread No Filenames Returned by coolboarderguy

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