Dear monks,

I have a directory containing many new directories all of which contain a file called 'mlc'. I want to be able to read the contents of each 'mlc' file from all directories (115) from with a perl script.

Is this possible? I also want to be able to relate the contents of each file to the name of the directory that it came from.

As there are so many directories I really don't want to hard code it.

All I have so far is listing the files in the directory 'new'.

'new' then contains the 115 directories all containing a file 'mlc' (which all have different contents). All of the directories within new are named the same apart from a number at the end, e.g. dir0 -> dir114 

opendir (NEW, "new/") or die "unable to open directory new $!";

my @dir_files = readdir(NEW);
print "@dir_files\n";

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In reply to opening directories in perl by Anonymous Monk

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