The builtin glob function will probably do what you want. Just make sure you check the "Portability issues" noted in that document.

Something like: 

my @logfiles = glob "*.log";

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then just iterate @logfiles, processing each in turn.

Because you said "... all of the files(many) in the same directory ..." you may exceed a maximum size. See GLOB_LIMIT in File::Glob for details.

If you are likely to approach that limit, a better option (although, a bit more coding) would be to use readdir.

You'll need to skip everything except normal files with a .log extension. Something like this (untested): 

while(readdir $dh) {
    next unless -f and /\.log$/;
    # Process log file here
}

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See File Test Operators if you're unfamiliar with -f.

-- Ken

In reply to Re^3: Opening multiple log files by kcott
in thread Opening multiple log files by hahazeeq

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