Had you used strict, the perl compiler would have tould you the error. This 

  if(-d BUS)

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doesn't do what you want. BUS is a bareword here which is just a symbol that can be used e.g. as a directory handle (not under strict, though). Then, even if it was a directory entry (which it isn't), you need to prepend $path to correctly name it's location.You can use either of 

  if ( $_ eq "BUS" and -d "$path/$_" ) # string equality test
  if ( /^BUS$/ && -d "$path/$_" )      # pattern match on $_

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But it is not necessary to read the contents of a directory to test for existence of a directory within whose name you know beforehand. You could as well just do

use strict; use warnings;
my $path='/home/something/something/something';
if ( -d "$path/BUS" )
  {
    opendir my $VEH, "$path/BUS" or die"couldnt open the directory\n";
    while(readdir $VEH )
      {
        print "$_\n";
      }
  }

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perl -le'print map{pack c,($-++?1:13)+ord}split//,ESEL'

In reply to Re: Read Directory by shmem
in thread Read Directory by Nansh

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