File::Listing - Parse directory listing

Original author: Gisle Aas Current maintainer: Graham Ollis <plicease@cpan.org> Contributors: Adam Kennedy Adam Sjogren Alex Kapranoff Alexey Tourbin Andreas J. Koenig Bill Mann Bron Gondwana DAVIDRW Daniel Hedlund David E. Wheeler David Steinbrunner Erik Esterer FWILES Father Chrysostomos Gavin Peters Graeme Thompson Grant Street Group Hans-H. Froehlich Ian Kilgore Jacob J Mark Stosberg Mike Schilli Ondrej Hanak Peter John Acklam Peter Rabbitson Robert Stone Rolf Grossmann Sean M. Burke Simon Legner Slaven Rezic Spiros Denaxas Steve Hay Todd Lipcon Tom Hukins Tony Finch Toru Yamaguchi Ville Skyttä Yuri Karaban Zefram amire80 jefflee john9art mschilli murphy phrstbrn ruff sasao uid39246

This software is copyright (c) 1996-2022 by Gisle Aas. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself. perl v5.36.0 2023-09-28 File::Listing(3pm)

This module exports a single function called "parse_dir", which can be used to parse directory listings.

parse_dir my $dir = parse_dir( $listing ); my $dir = parse_dir( $listing, $time_zone ); my $dir = parse_dir( $listing, $time_zone, $type ); my $dir = parse_dir( $listing, $time_zone, $type, $error ); my @files = parse_dir( $listing ); my @files = parse_dir( $listing, $time_zone ); my @files = parse_dir( $listing, $time_zone, $type ); my @files = parse_dir( $listing, $time_zone, $type, $error ); The first parameter ($listing) is the directory listing to parse. It can be a scalar, a reference to an array of directory lines or a glob representing a filehandle to read the directory listing from. The second parameter ($time_zone) is the time zone to use when parsing time stamps in the listing. If this value is undefined, then the local time zone is assumed. The third parameter ($type) is the type of listing to assume. Currently supported formats are 'unix', 'apache' and 'dosftp'. The default value is 'unix'. Ideally, the listing type should be determined automatically. The fourth parameter ($error) specifies how unparseable lines should be treated. Values can be 'ignore', 'warn' or a code reference. Warn means that the perl warn() function will be called. If a code reference is passed, then this routine will be called and the return value from it will be incorporated in the listing. The default is 'ignore'. Only the first parameter is mandatory. # list context foreach my $file (parse_dir($listing)) { my($name, $type, $size, $mtime, $mode) = @$file; } # scalar context my $dir = parse_dir($listing); foreach my $file (@$dir) { my($name, $type, $size, $mtime, $mode) = @$file; } The return value from parse_dir() is a list of directory entries. In a scalar context the return value is a reference to the list. The directory entries are represented by an array consisting of: name The name of the file. type One of: "f" file, "d" directory, "l" symlink, "?" unknown. size The size of the file. time The number of seconds since January 1, 1970. mode Bitmask a la the mode returned by "stat".

File::Listing - Parse directory listing

File::Listing::Ftpcopy Provides the same interface but uses XS and the parser implementation from "ftpcopy".

use File::Listing qw(parse_dir); $ENV{LANG} = "C"; # dates in non-English locales not supported foreach my $file (parse_dir(`ls -l`)) { my ($name, $type, $size, $mtime, $mode) = @$file; next if $type ne 'f'; # plain file #... } # directory listing can also be read from a file open my $listing, "zcat ls-lR.gz|"; $dir = parse_dir($listing, '+0000');

version 6.16