[Kc] getting all file paths

[Doug Ledbetter]

At 09:08 PM 3/22/2007, you wrote:
>I'm trying to figure out how to find out more about File::Find (like
>what -d does (I'm assuming it means directories), etc).



I don't quite understand what information you're wanting to get about 
each file but maybe this information will help:

Variable $File::Find::dir is the full path only to the file
Variable $File::Find::name is the full path and filename
Variable $_ is just the file name

Yes, you were correct that the "-d" test will determine if the file 
is a directory.  There are several other file tests also.

I don't know if this would help but instead of excluding the files 
you don't want to see maybe you could only include the files that you 
do want to see.  For example:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use File::Find;

# only display .mp3 files
find(sub { if ($_ =~ m/\.mpg$/i) { print "$File::Find::name\n" } }, 
"/Users/jay/Desktop/song files/");



>Also, is there a limit as to how many files you can find?  Does it
>just depend on how much memory your machine has?



I suppose you could run out of resources if you wrote the script 
right but generally speaking I think it returns one file at a time so 
I don't think there's a problem with memory.

I hope this helps!

-dougl


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