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I would like to execute ls in a Perl program as part of a CGI script. For this I used exec(ls), but this does not return from the exec call.
Is there a better way to get a listing of a directory in Perl?
Exec doesn’t return at all. If you wanted that, use system.
If you just want to read a directory, open/read/close-dir may be more appropriate.