File::Slurp::Tree provides functions for slurping and emitting trees of files and directories. # an example of use in a test suite use Test::More tests => 1; use File::Slurp::Tree; is_deeply( slurp_tree( "t/some_path" ), { foo => {}, bar => "sample\n" }, "some_path contains a directory called foo, and a file bar" ); The tree data structure is a hash of hashes. The keys of each hash are names of directories or files. Directories have hash references as their value, files have a scalar which holds the contents of the file. WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/File-Slurp-Tree/