Thanks I was looking to strip off the . and .. from the list returned as what I am wanting to do is travel down a directory tree opening files and checking to make sure they are valid, this is for a project I am working on to store results of tests into a database. I am on windows system so my filenames don't start with a period, I managed to get my list of directories now I would like to open the files within those directories but I don't think this is quite right.
opendir(DIR, "c:\\mlx\\") || die "can't opendir: $!";
@list = grep { $_ ne '.' && $_ ne '..'&& $_ ne 'copy.pl' }
@list=readdir(DIR);
foreach $name (@list)
{
print $name, "\n";
opendir(DIR, $name);
@files=readdir(DIR);
foreach $file(@files){
print "filename is ", $file, "\n";
}
#opendir(DIR, "$_")||die "Not able to open directory $!";
@files=readdir(DIR);
foreach(@files)
{
print $_, "\n";
}
}
this runs but I its not giving me all the files.
I have files in each directory it looks to be returning for only one of them.