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  4. The seekdir sets the current position for readdir() on the directory filehandle
The position is set by the a value returned by telldir().
opendir(DIR, "."); # current directory
while( $myfile=readdir(DIR) ){
    $spot=telldir(DIR);
    if ( "$myfile" eq ".login" ) {
       print "$myfile\n";
       last;
    }
}
rewinddir(DIR);
seekdir(DIR, $spot);
$myfile=readdir(DIR);
print "$myfile\n";