I'm trying to get a list of all the folders in a specific directory. I don't need anything fancy, no recursive scans or anything else. I just need all the directory names.

At work I've been given a list of almost 300 computer names and they want to see what version of Adobe Acrobat they have installed (we have a few different versions in our environment) so instead of doing it manually like they were expecting from me, I'd like to automate the task by reading everything in that folder.

This needs to work on other machines on my network meaning I'll be using c$. The following is what I tried. 

open(NDIR, "\\pcname-vm\c$\\program files\adobe") or die "Error: $!";
my @folders = readdir(NDIR);
close(NDIR);
print @folders;

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It dies saying "Unrecognized escale \p passed through at scanadobe.pl.."

Can someone help me get this work? I'm running Windows XP. </code>

In reply to Quickest way to get a list of all folders in a directory by Anonymous Monk

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