Hi

I've got the code below working to pick a file from a directory at random and print it to the browser. This works great, but as it is used as a front page for a busy website, I want to look at ways to:

a) speed it up
b) use less system resourcs, i.e. memory

The files are all named index.foo.html where foo can be absolutely anything, and the list is ever changing, so listing the file names in an array or a hash is not an option. 
    my @files = glob '/home/test/_html/index/index.*.html';
    open FILE, '<' . $files[rand @files] or die $!;
    print while <FILE>;
    close FILE;

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I am basically just looking at ways of making this more efficent, so I'm posting here to see what kind of responses I get and see if anyone has any ideas on how to make this more sleek :-)

Thanks!

- wil

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