First - thanks for the help and comments. Second - after reviewing the responses, suggestions, and doing some more studying, I think I am on the right track with my array. However, I am receiving "or die" message as my script executes. I have included a cleaned up version below for your information. It appears to be correct, and ran before I added the array. The error message states the correct array element so, I know that part is working. The directories do exist and contain other files and directories. Please take a look and point me in the right direction. Thanks in advance. 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
    open (FILE, "/Scripts/rotlog");
    my @lines = <FILE>;
    close FILE;
foreach $element (@lines) {
    #  open the directory for reading
opendir(REP, "$element")  || die "Cannot open the directory $element $
+! ";
open(REMLOG,">/Scripts/dir-removed.log");  # open a file to keep as a 
+log of directories removed.
print REMLOG "Directories removed this date : ",`date`, "\n"; # Place 
+a heading in the file.

#  list the contents of the directory.  These should be directories.
while ($name = readdir(REP)) {
    if (-M $name >= 10) {
    
    print "$name\n" unless($name eq "images"); #  
    print REMLOG "$name\n" unless($name eq "images"); #do not remove t
+he images directory

    `rm -r $name` unless($name eq "images");  # THIS WILL REMOVE THE D
+IRECTORY AND ALL OF ITS subdirectories and Files. 

}
}

close remlog;
closedir(REP)
}

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In reply to Execute error on opendir by mikevanhoff

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