my $path = '/home/bbq/tmp';
my @contents = glob($path);
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You'll have to sort out what got thrown into @contents if all you really want are just the files (you'll get files, dirs, sym links, devs, the whole gazoo). You could do a few checks before using each @contents. If you want a recursive example, I posted something a while back on this node which might be of interest.

HTH

#!/home/bbq/bin/perl
# Trust no1!