Re: forcing list-context

[pvaldes]

I need to find the number of entries in a directory.

my $dir = '/home/itsme/some/dir';
chdir $dir;
my $filenum = 0;
my $dirnum = 0;
my $linknum = 0;
opendir my $dh, $dir or die $!;
foreach(readdir $dh) {
    if (-f){$filenum++}
    elsif (-l){$linknum++}
    elsif (-d){$dirnum++}
    }
    
print "You have $filenum files, $linknum links and $dirnum directories
+ in $dir\n";
closedir $dh;

*(please note that this count is not recursive)

Updated: chdir line added (random results if this line is not activated)

[jwkrahn]

foreach(readdir $dh) {
    if (-f){$filenum++}
    elsif (-l){$linknum++}
    elsif (-d){$dirnum++}
    }

You are not going to get an accurate total because you are counting soft links in both $filenum and $linknum.    That would be better as:

foreach ( readdir $dh ) {
    lstat;
    if    ( -f _ ) { $filenum++ }
    elsif ( -l _ ) { $linknum++ }
    elsif ( -d _ ) { $dirnum++ }
    }