PERL Beginners - number of files in a dir

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number of files in a dir

Karl

2004-04-23, 5:37 pm

Hi all.

Is there a module or function which will return the number of files in a dir
or at least have similar results as

ls -1 | wc -l

Tks
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Karl

Wiggins D Anconia

2004-04-23, 6:32 pm

> Hi all.
>
> Is there a module or function which will return the number of files in
a dir
> or at least have similar results as
>
> ls -1 | wc -l
>

perldoc -f opendir
perldoc -f readdir

http://danconia.org

John W. Krahn

2004-04-23, 9:34 pm

Karl wrote:
>
> Hi all.

Hello,

> Is there a module or function which will return the number of files in a dir
> or at least have similar results as
>
> ls -1 | wc -l

For the same results as above:

my $number_of_files = () = <*>;

However that also includes directory names and does not include "hidden"
files.

# only file names
my $number_of_files = grep -f, <*>;

# include hidden files
my $number_of_files = grep -f, <* .*>;

John
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