A lot depends on your needs. If this was a throw away script, You could do something ugly like:
system('ls -Rl ~| grep ^d');
You could look at File::Find and the -d function
If you couldn't figure out File::Find, you could do something like this:
my $DIE_MSG="FATAL ERROR";
sub get_bytes_in_file_list {
my @files = @_;
my $size=0;
foreach my $file (@files) {
die "can't read $file $DIE_MSG"
if ( !-r $file );
if ( -d $file ) {
opendir( DH, $file )
or die "$! bad open directory $file $DIE_MSG\n";
my @sub_files =
map { "$file/$_"; }
grep { $_ ne '.' && $_ ne '..'; } readdir(DH);
closedir(DH) or die "$! couldn't close dir:$file\n$DIE_MSG
+";
$size += get_bytes_in_file_list(@sub_files)
if (@sub_files) # don't check empty dir;
}
else {
$size += ( stat($file) )[7];
}
}
return $size;
}
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