You might be interested in my node To glob or not to glob for the caveats of glob.
What would be the easiest to accomplish "listing all files/subdirectories including dotfiles/dotsubdirs but without the . and .." and "listing all dotfiles/dotsubdirs only, without the . and .."?
If you mean core-only, then:
use File::Spec::Functions qw/ no_upwards catfile catdir /;
opendir my $dh, $path or die "$path: $!";
my @files = map { -d catdir($path,$_) ? catdir($path,$_)
: catfile($path,$_) } sort +no_upwards readdir $dh;
closedir $dh;
Note: I think that on some OSes (VMS?), there's a difference between catfile and catdir, that would require you to use the -d test, but I believe the above should work fine on any other OS. (Or, you can omit the catfile entirely if bare filenames are ok.) <update> Confirmed the difference between catfile and catdir with File::Spec::VMS and File::Spec::Mac, so I updated the above example with the -d test accordingly. </update> <update2> I don't have a VMS or Classic Mac to test on, but I realized that my update had a bug in that I wasn't doing the -d test on the full filename. So I hope that this updated version would really be correct on those platforms. </update2>
If you need absolute pathnames, you probably want to add a $path = rel2abs($path); (also from File::Spec). Otherwise, if CPAN is fine, then I really like Path::Class, its children includes everything except the . and .. by default:
use Path::Class;
my @files = dir($path)->children();
# - or -
my @files = dir($path)->absolute->children();