NAME

       File::Listing - parse directory listing

SYNOPSIS

        use File::Listing qw(parse_dir);
        $ENV{LANG} = "C";  # dates in non-English locales not supported
        for (parse_dir(`ls -l`)) {
            ($name, $type, $size, $mtime, $mode) = @$_;
            next if $type ne 'f'; # plain file
            #...
        }

        # directory listing can also be read from a file
        open(LISTING, "zcat ls-lR.gz|");
        $dir = parse_dir(\*LISTING, '+0000');

DESCRIPTION

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

       The first parameter to parse_dir() 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 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 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 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.

       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 [ $filename, $filetype, $filesize, $filetime, $filemode ].  The
       $filetype value is one of the letters 'f', 'd', 'l' or '?'.  The $filetime value is the
       seconds since Jan 1, 1970.  The $filemode is a bitmask like the mode returned by stat().

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 1996-2010, Gisle Aas

       Based on lsparse.pl (from Lee McLoughlin's ftp mirror package) and Net::FTP's parse_dir
       (Graham Barr).

       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
       terms as Perl itself.