Ok, I have a bunch of files. All of these files have the same name. All of these files with the same name are in a directory with the same name. Each of these directories with the same name is a subdirectory in a bunch of directories all with different names. All of these directories are subdirectories of one common directory. So the list of files would look like this:

./dir1/foo/bar.txt

./dir2/foo/bar.txt

./dir3/foo/bar.txt

etc.

I need to make the same modification to every copy of bar.txt. My plan was to find a way to make an array dirList such that its contents were equal to ( dir1 dir2 dir3 ... ). Therefore I could just say 

foreach my $dir ( @dirList ) {
  open ( FILE, "$dir/foo/bar.txt" ) or die ("nasty message: $!");
  while (<FILE>) {
    &doStuff();
  }
}

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My only problem is I don't know how to create @dirList. Any help would be appreciated.

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In reply to Opening every directory in the current directory by DeusVult

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