hola;

Asim mentioned earlier the module win32::Dirsize, which copes well with the size problems one can often encounter (witness his use of bigint) in determining the size of remote directories. though he says it is slow, it is certainly faster than summing file sizes via file::find.

here is a scriptlet which demonstrates its use.

use Win32::DirSize;
chomp(my $dir = shift || <DATA>);
my @dirstats;
push @dirstats,sprintf("%-40s%-10s%-10s%-10s\n",
               "Directory", "Size", "FileCount", "DirCount");

if (dir_size($dir, my $dirstat) == DS_RESULT_OK){
    my $size = best_convert(my $unit, 
                $dirstat->{HighSize}, 
                $dirstat->{LowSize});
    my $filecount = $dirstat->{FileCount};
    my $dircount = $dirstat->{DirCount};
    push @dirstats, sprintf("%-40s%-10s%-10s%-10s\n",
                $dir, 
                sprintf("%8.4f", $size) . $unit,
                $filecount, 
                $dircount);
}
push @dirstats, undef;
map { print } grep { defined } @dirstats;

__DATA__
\\save\farscape$\warez

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which produces something like 
Directory                               Size      FileCount DirCount  
\\save\farscape$\warez                  717.0521M 4435      999

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hope that helps. yes, it uses map in a void context, but i cannot resist map's allure.

...wufnik

-- in the world of the mules there are no rules --

In reply to Re: How to obtain the size of a remote Winnt4 share by wufnik
in thread How to obtain the size of a remote Winnt4 share by blackadder

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