#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use warnings; my $dir="/your/dir/name"; my $file; my @files; opendir (DIR, "$dir"); while ($file = readdir(DIR)) { push (@files, $file); } @files = sort {$a cmp $b} @files; foreach $file (@files) { print "$file\n"; } { my @files = <$dir/*>; my $count = @files; print "Number of files $count \n"; }