Hello,

I have a problem, I currently do this to count all the files in all available directories (a directory ONLY contains files, no subdirectories): 

my @dirs = dir_entries($dir);
foreach $file (@dirs) {
    my @batches = dir_entries($dir.$file);
    my $amount = @batches;
    $total += $amount;
}

sub dir_entries {
    my ($dir) = @_;
    opendir(DIR, $dir);
    my @entries = readdir(DIR);
    close(DIR);
    # Remove . and ..
    @entries = grep (!/^\./, @entries);
    @entries = sort {$a cmp $b} @entries;
    return @entries;
}

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This works fine, but there is a little something extra. The directory names are changed very rapidly, so when the script tries to read the contents of a directory, it can already be renamed, and therefore this directory is skipped.

Anyone has a solution to prevent this from happening?

In reply to How do I count all the files in all subdirectories? by Marcello

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