I'm new in perl trying to create a simple script. my goal is to create script to use for Nagios. trying to create a script that is count file in a specifict directory and print it out. Script working and printing out a number, only problemes i have, is in my folder i have 2 files but when script print out result i get that is 4 file in directory. What is problems in my script? you see the script here under.

 
 use strict;
    use warnings;

    my $directory = 'My directory';
    my $file_count=0;

    opendir (DIR, $directory) or die $!;
    
       while (my $file = readdir(DIR)) {


if( $file){
$file_count++;
}

}
closedir(DIR);

print "Files: $file_count\n";

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Best regard Joakim

In reply to count file in directory by joaase

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