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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting PERL count files in a dir Post 302332064 by blitzer on Wednesday 8th of July 2009 05:27:01 AM
Old 07-08-2009
I would avoid at any price to call system from a perl script.
Here's a quick try
Code:
perl -e 'opendir (DIR, $ARGV[0]) ; @count = readdir(DIR); $count = @count; print $count-2,"\n"' /path/to/your/directory



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Edit: added the -2 in order not to count "." and ".."
 

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