try

($dev,$ino,$mode,$nlink,$uid,$gid,$rdev,$size,
       $atime,$mtime,$ctime,$blksize,$blocks)
           = stat($file) or die "Can't stat: $!";
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to see what's going wrong (likely either the file itself isn't readable for you, or the directory its in isn't executable)

update: ikegami is right. ignore this for now