opendir(MY_DIR, "/some/directory") || die "huh? $!";

    closedir(MY_DIR);

Irsan.

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In comp.lang.perl.misc,

:I need a script that will search a directory read the name of every file

:and had no idea where else to turn.  

I suggest turning to the manpages, whence cometh thy help.
perlfunc would a good start.

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posted...
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|>I need a script that will search a directory read the name of every file

|
|not sure what you mean with 'search a directory', but this should do the reading
|part of your quest:
|

[snip]

Or if you only want the files and not the directories too:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use strict;
  my $dir_name = './dir';
  opendir (DIR, $dir_name) or die "Could not find directory: $dir_name
$!";

  closedir(DIR);
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the grep excludes the . and .. from the list. If you really want files
only, add
use grep(-f $_, readdir(DIR)); instead (. and .. are not files :-)

John

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Date: Tue, 09 Jun 1998 14:49:04 GMT
Subject: Reading Directories

        }

That'll do what you want, though that's all it does.  Don't really have
an idea what else you're after.

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