Ten years passed, we still are very interested in this problem, I got some code to get the total number of files under a directory, sub directory is also included.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
my $location = "the path of directory you want to process"; #root dir
+ectory
my $n = 0;
readsub($location);
print "Found $n file(s)!\n"; #print the total number of files you fo
+und
exit;
sub readsub {
my ($file_t) = @_;
if (-f $file_t) { #if its a file
$n++; #the total number of files
}
if (-d $file_t) { #if its a directory
opendir(AA,$file_t) || return;
my @list = readdir(AA);
closedir (AA);
my $file_to_act;
foreach $file_to_act (sort @list) {
if ($file_to_act =~ /^\.|\.$/) { next; }
else { readsub("$file_t/$file_to_act"); }
}
}
}
Enjoy!