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use Path::Class qw/dir/; my @files = sort grep { !$_->is_dir && $_->basename=~/^[^.]/ } dir($path)->children;
use File::Spec::Functions qw/ no_upwards catfile catdir /; opendir my $dh, $path or die "$path: $!"; ... grep { ! -d catdir($path,$_) && /^[^.]/ } no_upwards readdir $dh; closedir $dh;