works well now that great, I was wondering how could i get it to list the files from the subdirectories as well?
maybe using the -d command ? cheers matt. "James Kipp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > > Im now trying to list a directory, but only the files in that > > directory that > > finish with a perticular ending, say .html, i.e *.html. Ive > > got this far, > > but having troubles, wondering if you could have a look for me: > > > > you are pretty close, try the following > > use strict; > use warnings; > > $dir = '/staff/lad/public_html/SWT'; > > opendir(DIR, $dir) or die "Cannot open directory"; > # read the dir contents into a list, and grep out the . and .. dir entries > @entries = grep (!/^\.\.?$/ , readdir (DIR)); > closedir(DIR); > foreach (@entries) > { > print "$_\n" if /.*\.html$/; > } > > --- > Note, this does not deal with iterating through the subdirs of this > directory, for that you would have to write a recursion routine OR use > File::Find which does all that and more for you. In fact many would say to > use File::Find for any job like this. Do a google search for it and you will > find plenty of examples, scripts, and documentation for it > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
