I think your problem is that this:

while( < $fh > )
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...should be this:

while ( <$fh> )
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The difference is that the one that works does not have spaces before and after "$fh". With the spaces in there, it's actually trying to use the filehandle for glob (not what you intended).

A few other recommendations.

• Check for failure on every open, close, and flock.
• use Fcntl qw( :flock ); and then use the "FLOCK_*" constants that it provides instead of literal numbers.
• Use three argument open when it's time to append to your log file: open $fh, '>>', '/LogsEM/Log.txt' or die "Can't append to /LogsEM/Log.txt: $!\n";

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