You have to keep track of the filenames.

You cannot retrieve a filename from a filehandle (see Is it possible to get a filename from a filehandle? )

You death needs to be more meaningful.

In other words, don't just die;

You should be doing something like (no real reason you shouldn't):

for $file(@ARGV)
{
    open(FHF,$file) or die("Can't open $file $!");
    while(<FHF>)
    {
        die "crap $file $!" unless ($verified);
    }
    close(FHF);
}
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update:
japhy got his answer from perlop (too much magic for me), and apparently (from perlopI/O Operators):

The null filehandle <> is special: it can be used to emulate the behav
+ior of sed and awk. Input from <> comes either from standard input, o
+r from each file listed on the command line. Here's how it works: the
+ first time <> is evaluated, the @ARGV array is checked, and if it is
+ empty, $ARGV[0] is set to ``-'', which when opened gives you standar
+d input. The @ARGV array is then processed as a list of filenames. Th
+e loop


    while (<>) {

        ...                     # code for each line

    }
is equivalent to the following Perl-like pseudo code:


    unshift(@ARGV, '-') unless @ARGV;

    while ($ARGV = shift) {

        open(ARGV, $ARGV);

        while (<ARGV>) {

            ...         # code for each line

        }

    }
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perl -e "$q=$_;map({chr unpack qq;H*;,$_}split(q;;,q*H*));print;$q/$q;"