Hi,

I am new to perl scripting and wrote a perl script to read the directories and files and count the no of files in each directory and generate a log file. The problem is it is not printing anything to the log file. I am copying the script below. 

!/usr/local/bin/perl

$dir= 'c:\My Projects\Perl Scripts\New Folder' ;

$directory_count = 0;
$file_count=0;

$outfile = 'log.txt';

open OUTF, "> $outfile" or die print " can't create logfile; $!";

for $dir ( @dirs ) {

opendir( DIR, "$dir" ) ;
@files = readdir( DIR ) ;

foreach $file ( @files )
{
if ( -f "$dir/$file")

{
$directory_count++;
}
else {
$file_count++;
}
}
{
print "Directories: $directory_count\n";
print "Files: $file_count\n";

}




closedir( $dir ) ;

}

close OUTF ;

exit 0;

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In reply to Perl Script to count files and directories is not working. by manu_06

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