I'm trying to create a whole slew of directories using: 
open PUB_CAT, 'pub_cat.txt' or die "Can't open file: $!\n";
foreach (<PUB_CAT>) 
{     
    mkdir "../Online_Library/$_", 777;
}

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PUB_CAT just contains a list of names of directories. The script worked in that these directories were created, however, all the directories were saved as 411, meaning that I don't even have access to change them or read or write to them. Also, when I look at the directories via telnet, they appear to be the file name i wanted with two extra guestion marks at the end, so that mydirectory looks like mydirectory??
1. How do I fix it so that the script creates directories as 777?
2. How do I go about deleting all these useless directories?
3. Why is it adding the two ?? at the end of the directory name?
Thanks, this perplexes me greatly and I really don't even know what's wrong...

In reply to mkdir mode troubles by newatperl

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