i have a large no of .htm files in a specified directory and i need to combine all this files into one .htm file i am trying with the following piece of code but it is not able to open the file . please help 

 
#!/usr/bin/perl
#use strict;
use warnings ;
opendir(DIR, "/home/rjs/perl/perlnut/") or die "cant open the specfied
+ directory $!";
my @file = readdir(DIR);
#my $book = final.htm;
open(OUT, ">book") or die "Can't create book: $! \n ";
                                                                      
+                           
foreach (sort @file)
{
local(*IN);
open( IN, $_) or die "cant raman open $_ : $!\n ";
print OUT while <IN>;
close (IN);
                                                                      
+                           
}

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