Jair Santos wrote: > Hi all, > > does anybody knows how to check if a diretory is empty?
Does this suit what you want? It's got very inelegant error handling but should suffice for most purposes. use strict; print nfiles('/usr/bin'); sub nfiles { opendir my $dh, $_[0] or die $!; my @dir = readdir $dh; return scalar @dir; } HTH, Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]