On Feb 4, david wright said:
>i am sending @array a directory (i.e. example /usr/dw5) which contains a
>lot of files and folders (directories).
Be warned that readdir() returns NAMES, not PATHS.
opendir DIR, "/some/dir";
@files = readdir DIR;
closedir DIR;
@files will contain (".", "..", "file1", "blah", ...). Notice how those
names do NOT have "/some/dir/" at the beginning?
for (@files) {
print "$_ is ok\n" if -d "/some/dir/$_";
}
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