Hi I'm new to Perl and just learning. I have created the following script as a test to see how the symlink function works. there are a total of five files within a directory. im attempting to symbolicly link these files to the parent directory giving the link the same name as the file. However one of the files is an executable binary and the script will not create the link. Does anyone know where I'm going wrong. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
my $dir = "/home/test/folder";
opendir(BIN, $dir) || die "Can't open $dir: $!";
my @array = grep { -T "$dir/$_" } readdir BIN;

foreach $file (@array) {
$file = symlink ("/home/test/folder/$file","/home/folder/$file")
}

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