in reply to Comparing Directories

Two simple steps:

update: There are quite a few nodes on PerlMonks about comparing arrays. Do use the search.

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Re^2: Comparing Directories
by why_bird (Pilgrim) on May 01, 2008 at 10:04 UTC
    opendir, readdir and closedir---how did I never know about those? I currently do quite a lot of reading in the contents of directories, and so far I've always done it by endless constructs like 
    $dir_list=`ls -1 */*`;
@files=split(/\n/,$dir_list);

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