Do you return to the previous path before chdir? If not, relative PATH's will fail

use strict;
use warnings;
use autodie;
use Cwd;

my $base = getcwd;
open my $lh, "<", "small.txt";
chomp (my @arr= <$lh>); # remove newlines
close $lh;
foreach my $dir (@arr) { # don't use C-like for when you don't use the
+ index var
    chdir $base; # always return to base before the next chdir
    print "path read from file = $path\n";
    # it displays => ms_qu/the/path/written/in/file
    #  Which is a *relative* path name
    chdir $dir or die "$1"; # WTF is $1?
    print "After chdir, cwd is = ", getcwd, "\n";
    }

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Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

In reply to Re: using chdir($variable_name) to change directory by Tux
in thread using chdir($variable_name) to change directory by shridhar22

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