Interestingly glob didnt work on my installation of ActivePerl.

readdir() works a treat tho.. funny how the -d and -f does not always work and I see most files and folders listed in the else

sub recurseDir2 {
   opendir(DIR, $_[0]);
   my @temp =  readdir(DIR);
   closedir DIR;
   #my @temp = (glob $_[0]);
   foreach (@temp) {
      if (-d $_) {
         print "Directory: $_" , "\n" ;
         recurseDir2("$_/*");   
      }
      elsif (-f $_) {
         print "File: $_ \n";
      }else{
        print "Other: $_ \n";
      }
   }  
}

recurseDir2('c:/');

---8<---
Other: deleteme.htm 
Other: I386 
Other: DISCOVER 
Other: AUTOEXEC.BAT 
Other: CONFIG.SYS 
Other: deleteme.gif 
Other: BOOTLOG.TXT 
Other: WINDOWS 
Other: casa_gms.zip 
Other: Answer.txt 
Other: Recycled 
Other: sacoss_crm.zip 
Other: convert_rarossa.zip 
Other: mpcsetup.log 
File: console.zip 
Directory: data
---8<---
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because windows folders usually don't have extensions and files usually do have extensions this concept could be used in a controlled environment to recurse through all folders (things with no extension)

 ___
/\__\ "What is the world coming to?"
\/__/ www.wolispace.com
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