I'm a novice with perl so take it easy on me. I'm trying to open a http directory on our network. What command do I use to open a http directory and read all the directories below it? The opendir command does not read http directories.

Our IS department has moved all our documentation that we need for on-call to SharePoint so I can't just copy and paste anymore for a standard directory on the network. Urrggh.

Here is a simple sample of code that I have written (this isn't complete)... 

#Open the directory
opendir (DIR, "http://yoda/Documents/PSG/Customers/") || die ("Unable 
+to open directory");

#Read list of files in the directory
while ($filename = readdir(DIR)) {
    @files = readdir(DIR); 
}
closedir(DIR);

#Remove the file . which represents the current directory
shift (@files);

#Go through each of the files in the directory
foreach $file (@files) {
  
  #Open subfolder
  open (DIR, "http://yoda/Documents/PSG/Customers/$file/Support/sitema
+p/") 

  #code here copies each document from subfolder to c:\sitemaps
}

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Thanks!

In reply to Opening a web page directory by rhoadesjn

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