On Thursday 28 Oct 2010 06:30:01 Mike Blezien wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've been out of the programming game for a while and recently got back
> into some small programming projects. Just need to figure out if there is
> a Perl function to determine the total size of a folder and files? Meaning
> once we open/read a directory is to calculate the total, in MB's, the size
> of the files in a particular directory folder.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> Mike(mickalo)Blezien
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Hi Mike,

You could make use of File::Find's find function along with stat.

=pod Example

use strict;
use warnings;

use File::Find;

my $size;
my $directory = '/path/to/some/directory';

sub determine_size {
    if ( -f $File::Find::name ) {
        $size += ( stat $File::Find::name )[7];
    }
}

find( \&determine_size, $directory );

$size /= 1024 * 1024;

print "Total size: $size MB\n";

=cut

Relevant documents to read:
`perldoc File::Find` - http://perldoc.perl.org/File/Find.html
`perldoc -f stat` - http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/stat.html


Regards,
Alan Haggai Alavi.

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