~/test/foo/bar> touch bla ~/test/foo/bar> ls -a .  ..  bla ~/test/foo/bar> cat > ~/perl/test/opendirtest.pl #!/usr/bin/perl -l opendir DIR, '.' or die $!; print for readdir DIR; ~/test/foo/bar> chmod +x ~/perl/test/opendirtest.pl ~/test/foo/bar> ~/perl/test/opendirtest.pl . .. bla