--- Richard Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Peter Jay Salzman said: > > On Tue 10 Feb 04, 9:56 AM, Richard Crawford > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > said: > >> I'm trying to write a Perl application that > will go through a > >> directory and give the amount of space used > by each directory, > >> including each subdirectory. So, for > example, if myDirectory1 has > >> three files totalling 150K and two > subdirectories (mySubDirectoryA, > >> with 20K of files, and mySubDirectoryB with > 50K of files), I'd like to > >> see output like this: > >> > >> DIRECTORY SIZE > >> ====================== > >> myDirectory1 220K > >> > >> I'm stuck at the first line. Any > suggestions? > > > > is this a programming exercise or do you just > want something to give you > > the numbers? > > A programming exercise. It's something we'll > be going back to again and > again. I'm having trouble installing the > FileSys modules, which is making > all of this unnecessarily difficult.
<snip> File::Find comes to mind. It is a handy way to walk a tree, doing whatever you want, at each file in the tree. There are probably other better, faster ways but if you plan on making a project of this, then this approach might provide a little structure to build on. Just a thought, Jim __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech