my script takes in command line arguments
eg. myscript.pl -5 /home/slok

the script works fine if I don't supply the path argument
but give an error message when I supply a path...

message as follows:
========
invalid top directory at /usr/lib/per5/5.6.0/File/Find.pm line 279
===========

my code is as follows
===========


use File::Find;
use strict;

my $path = "."; #default path
my $num = 10; #default number
my $num_flag = 0;
my @paths;  #array to hold paths
my $num_pahts = 0;

foreach my $argv (@ARGV) {
        if ( $argv =~ m/^-/ ) {
    $num_flag++;
    if ($num_flag > 1) {
            print STDERR "Cannot have more than one entry for number o
+f users\n";
        usage_exit(1);
    }
        $num = substr($argv, 1);
        print ("num is, $num\n");
    }
    # if it matches slash or is a path    
    if ( $argv =~ m/^\// ) {
        $num_paths++;
        print ("num_path, $num_paths\n");
    $paths[$num_paths] = $argv;
    }
}

# set default path if no path argument is supplied
if ($num_paths == 0) {
    @paths = <$path/*>;
}


my %size;
my @sorted;



find (sub {
         $size{$File::Find::name} = -s if -f || -l; }, @paths
);

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