Hi, I'm trying to change directories within a perl script, but for some reason it doesn't follow correctly into the right directory. Here is the code, if you know what's wrong with it - help is a lot appreciated! Thanks. 

 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use File::chdir;
use Cwd;
use strict;
my $dir='/data1/sgb';

chdir '$dir/Hsapiens_fasta_folder';

my @files=<*.fa>;

chdir '$dir/targetp-1.1';

my $current=getcwd();

foreach my $file( @files) {
print "$file\n";
print "$current\n";

}

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so what happens in this script is that instead of print at $current : chdir '$dir/targetp-1.1'; it prints '/data1/sgb'; - i.e. the location of $dir. I have no idea why. Thanks for the help.

In reply to using change directory within perl script by cburger

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