'-z filehandle': True if file exists and its size is 0.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w $dir = "c:\\"; opendir(DIR, $dir) or die "Can't open $name due to $!"; @entries = readdir(DIR); closedir(DIR); @sorted = sort(@entries); foreach $entry (@sorted) { $name = $dir . '/' . $entry; print "$name "; if (-z $name) { print "exist and file size is 0"; } }