use strict; my $dir = '.'; print &dir_tree_size($dir) . "\n"; exit 0; sub dir_tree_size { my $dir = shift; my ($i,$total); $total = 0; opendir DIR, $dir; my @files = grep !/^\.\.?$/, readdir DIR; for $i (@files) { if(-d $i) { $total += dir_tree_size($dir . "/$i") } else { $total += -s $i} } return $total; }