There really has to be an easier way to do this. It's for a web site that displays my MP3 collection, this is about 1.5 hours of work. Don't laugh. I'm really not very good at this, YET. 
@dirs = qx {ls -R \/HD\/MP3 | grep \:};
foreach $dir (@dirs)
{
    chomp $dir;
    $dir =~ s/://;
    $dir = "\"" . $dir . "\"";
    @files = qx {cd $dir ; ls *.mp3 ; cd \/HD\/MP3\/};
    $dir =~ s/"//g;
    print "
$dir
\n";
    foreach $file (@files)
    {
        print "
$file
";
    }
}
I had to use the nested foreach() because I wanted the dir name outdented, I tried indenting the filenames using \t, but I must not know enough to even get that right. Yes I know my tags have spaces in them, that's the only way I could get them to show up on the post.

For it to work you need to replace /HD/MP3 in lines 1 and 7 with a dir containing some MP3s and some album subdirs.

Thanks in advance,
JR Boyens
Self Proclaimed Perl Newbie

In reply to Easier way to do this by LoneRanger

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