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seekdir DIRHANDLE,POS
Sets the current position for the readdir() routine on DIRHANDLE. POS must be a value returned by telldir(). Has the same caveats about possible directory compaction as the corresponding system library routine.

Source: Perl builtin functions
Copyright: Larry Wall, et al.
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