> That looks very, very wrong. You're binding a scalar to > something other than a regular expression. Tell us what you > are attempting to do here. > > HTH, > > Charles K. Clarkson
yeah, I agree. Here is the scenario: I have a Mac client that is grabbing pictures and writing them to a netatalk share, and the files prefix with klee and then are one-up serialized (not my design, I just do networking). The PC client grabs the images via samba share and displays them. This is part of an museum exhibit (http://nano.arts.ucla.edu) that runs till September 2004. On a busy day, the system grabs around 4000 images. We are archiving the pictures, so I have a cron script that copies the directory, tars the copy and sends it to a backup server. That all works, but I need to empty the source and copy directories. Previously, I was just calling rm -rf /test/directory/*, but I get "Argument too long" errors. So, I need to load the directory listing into an array, and rm or unlink them one at a time. When I use readdir(DIR, $testdir), I only get half of the entries. I tried explicitly declaring DIR as an array, but I guess handles don't do that. How do I load all of the directory into an array, or more specifically why am I only getting half? I'm using Perl 5.8 on Mac OSX Panther. Thanks for the help, Charles -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
