use strict; use File::Spec::Functions 'catfile'; use IO::Dir; sub _dircnts { my $dir = shift; my $do = IO::Dir->new($dir) or die "Couldn't open '$dir': $!"; return map catfile($dir, $_), grep !/^\.\.?$/, $do->read; } sub rec_readdir { my $dir = shift; my @cnts = _dircnts $dir; my $iter; $iter = sub { my $f = pop @cnts; return unless defined $f; push @cnts, _dircnts $f and return &$iter if -d $f; return $f; }; return $iter; } my $di = rec_readdir(shift); while(my $file = &$di) { # do stuff here }