You have got one or more starting directory and want to search recursively through them all for Files with the Extension .html? If you find such files that contain the word Expired, you want to write the names of these files to STDOUT.
I think, you could do so with using the Module File::Find: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use File::Find;
my @startdirs = qw(/home /var/dir); # list of startdirectories
find ( 
  sub {
    if( /\.html$/ ) { # $_ contains filename without path
      open (HTML, $File::Find::name) # filename with path
        or warn "couldn't read from $File::Find::name: $!\n";
      while (<HTML>) {
        if ( /\bExpired\b/i ){ # if Expired found
          print "$File::Find::name\n";
          last; # skip rest of file
        } # if
      } # while

      close (HTML);

    } # if .html
  },
@startdirs);

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Best regards,
perl -le "s==*F=e=>y~\*martinF~stronat~=>s~[^\w]~~g=>chop,print"

In reply to Re: Listing Files by strat
in thread Listing Files by Anonymous Monk

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