Hi. Still having trouble with this...I do not understand why calling "test.pl ." finds subdirs in the Products subdir if I run it there and pass "." as the arg but doesn't find them if I run it one level back (ie. CD ..)and pass "./Products" as the arg??

This is true which ever of the two filter clauses I use.

I hate being a "newbie" again. 

C:\www\NB.biz\html>type test.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use diagnostics;

print $ARGV[0], "\n";

opendir(DIR,  $ARGV[0] ) or die ".: $!";
#my @list = grep { -d and /^\.\.?/ } readdir(DIR);
my @list = grep { -d $_ and $_ ne '.' and $_ ne '..'} readdir(DIR);
closedir(DIR);
print  foreach ( @list ), "\n";

C:\www\NB.biz\html>test.pl .
.
cssgraphicsProducts

C:\www\NB.biz\html>test.pl ./products
./products
                         <<<< NO OUTPUT HERE???
C:\www\NB.biz\html>test.pl ./Products/
./Products/
                         <<<< OR HERE????
C:\www\NB.biz\html>cd products
C:\www\NB.biz\html\Products>../test.pl .
.
Books
C:\www\NB.biz\html\Products>

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Thanks, NJ Sandever.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Create a list of directories without . and .. by Anonymous Monk
in thread Create a list of directories without . and .. by BrowserUk

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