#!/usr/bin/perl my $dir = "/cdw/home_dir/s006258/"; #Opening directory and file to compare retention files die("Cannot open /cdw/home_dir/s006258/list_of_dirs.txt.") unless(open(FILE, ">/cdw/home_dir/s006258/list_of_dirs.txt")); # read all entries from dir and skip '.' and '..' directories opendir (DIRHANDLE, $dir) or die "can't open $dir: $!"; my @list=grep !/^\.\.?\z/, readdir DIRHANDLE; # now we sort the list on directory basis foreach my $file (sort {-d "$dir/$b" <=> -d "$dir/$a"} @list) { print FILE "$file\n" if -d "$dir/$file"; print FILE "$dir"."$file\n" if -T "$dir/$file"; } closedir (DIRHANDLE); close(FILE);