Almost there, a little mistake by copying my stuff over.

Becomes ...

open LS_PIPE, '-|', '/bin/ls' ,'-l', $_ or die "Cannot open pipe from 
+'/bin/ls' because: $!";
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Because if the found directory is at a depth greater than 1 ls reports that it cannot find the path obtained by using $File::Find::name (this is because find (by default) cd's into each directory but $File::Find::name returns the path from the 'root' of the search). But $_ returns the found directory name only, (local to the current directory)