--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi to All,
> I' d like to know if it' s possible to count the exact number of files
> inside a certain directory, using a way better than this:
perl -e 'opendir D,".";$count=grep{-f}readdir D;print $count'
That breaks out to:
opendir DIR, $dir or die "Cannot open $dir: $!";
# grep returns a list, so accessing it scalar context
# returns the number of items in the list
my $count = grep { -f } readdir DIR;
closedir DIR;
Cheers,
Curtis "Ovid" Poe
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Senior Programmer
Onsite! Technology (http://www.onsitetech.com/)
"Ovid" on http://www.perlmonks.org/
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