Dan Muey wrote:
> 
> Thanks. What I really want to do is avoid system commands completely.
> I could always traverse the directory adding the size of each file
> together and do that all in Perl with no system commands but I figured
> there'd already be a Module or something like this, so I want to do it
> that way. Somthign like:

You mean something like (untested):

use File::Find;

my $dir = '/some/dir';
my $size;

find( sub { -f and ( $size += -s _ ) }, $dir );

print "Directory '$dir' contains $size bytes\n";



John
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