opendir doesnt NEED an or die. If you get no results, it didn't work. In this setting I'm guessing that he knows what his directories are and entered them correctly.

The regular expression is there in case there are any blank lines in the directory.txt file, so it dosen't try to process them. But again, it would just return a zero value if it did. I nver trust user input, I try to check it where I can. Old habits. Much easier to accidently hit the return an extra return at the end of the file, this takes care of it.

$_/$file, ya got me. I missed changing that one to $dir in the final sweep. My bad.

In reply to Re^3: pushing file counts for adding by TorontoJim
in thread pushing file counts for adding by flieckster

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