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Re: quickest way to find number of files in a directory?

by kyle (Abbot)
on Mar 27, 2007 at 15:10 UTC ( [id://606769]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

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    my $directory_name = shift || '.';

...
    or die "Can't opendir '$directory_name': $!";
my $file_count = scalar grep { -f "$directory_name/$_" } readdir $dh;
closedir $dh or die "Can't closedir: $!";

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