How can I adapt this bit of code; 
my $size = 0;
$size += (-f $_ ? -s _ : 0) for (<*>);
print $size;

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so that instead of <*> i can pass on a remote share or directory name?

like this: \\Server\Share_Name or \\Server\DriveLetter\FolderName.

Since I have not tried this code yet so I don't know how fast it is, but I have tried these 2 methods 

1) ($Total)=( (qx{dir /s "$UncSharePath"})[-2]=~ /([\d,]+) bytes/ )

2) find(sub { $total += -s }, $dir);

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And they are very slow -unusable really in real life, ok on small servers thu.
Does any one know how can I extract the sizes of a remote share or folder directly off the OS? Surely automating this process in Perl should be faster than doing it manually, i.e. by right clicking on a folder and selecting the properties, which seems to be the fastest method, but unfortunaly I have a list of servers to go through...
Thanks for your help Guys.

In reply to Faster way to obtain a remote share or folder size by blackadder

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