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Re^2: Automatically distributing and finding files in subdirectoriesby Fletch (Bishop) |
on Jul 18, 2006 at 02:32 UTC ( [id://561910]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
ls is going to be calling the same underlying system calls that perl's builtin opendir and readdir are going to call. You're actually going to incur more overhead in the fork-and-exec than just calling them directly.
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