Question:

I need to find the largest (space usage wise) directory on a drive. The drive is on a windows 2000 machine.

What is the easiest way to do this.

i've tried the following (please forgive incomplete code, i didn't feel it was needed here): 
$size = -s "$dirname"; #this returns 0

opendir(DIR, $dirname);
$size = -s readdir(DIR); #again 0

( .... ) = stat(DIR); #returns a filename to $size

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The only think i can come up with is a routine to recursively get the size of each file, and recurse on any directories it finds. This however is boring :)

Any ideas?

In reply to Directory Size by Anonymous Monk

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