$ordner = "E:/Test/testordner/"; opendir ORDNER,"$ordner" || die "opendir von ORDNER nicht möglich"; @files = ("test1.txt","test2.txt"); foreach $file (<$ordner*>) { unlink $file; } sleep(10); foreach $file (@files) { open OUTPUT, ">$ordner".$file; } @files = readdir ORDNER; $x = @files; print "number of files: $x\n"; close ORDNER;