Actually, I am using that module, and unless I am missing something, when it's a directory the $_ will either contain the full path, or the directory name of the current directory.

using my example above I would get a list like:

Enabling no_chdir => 1 will produce

Which I can then use the File::Spec->abs2rel and get \DirD\DirE

The reason I am after \DirD\DirE is I want to then append this to another base path to see if a file / directory exist in that location