Re^3: quickest way to find number of files in a directory?

That depends on your shells. At least under bash, you can use glob() to grab dot files, for example:

  print "$_\n" for grep{ -f } glob(".*");

Or probably if you want to grab both dot and non-dot files:

  print "$_\n" for grep{ -f } glob("{*,}.*");

Regards,
Xicheng

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Re^4: quickest way to find number of files in a directory? by ferreira (Chaplain) on Mar 27, 2007 at 20:30 UTC
Nope. It does not depend on your shell. At least not if you're using Perl 5.6 or later, because glob is implemented via the standard File::Glob extension and does not rely on shell anymore. The standard behavior of `<>` or `glob('')` is to not consider the dot files.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: quickest way to find number of files in a directory? by choroba (Cardinal) on Jul 24, 2012 at 15:43 UTC
In the example given, glob is not used with '*'.	[reply]