walking dirs recursively (I'm doing what on Fri nite?)

[C. Abney]

~sdpm~
Hmm, looking through the Cookbook, I notice File::Find is recommended
for recursive searches through a directory hierarchy.

Is there any reason why recursion down a directory hierarchy is best
left to this module?

To test using an array to store the directory names, I cobbled together
(a rewrite of) an 'rtgrep' I once did using bash (see below)

Seems to work, but am I missing something important (aside from the
weak command line flexibility -- it's just a quick mockup, for now)?

CA
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=========================<rtgrep>=========================
#! /usr/bin/perl -w
# Greps text files...
# Doesn't even try to follow links

use strict;

my ( $re, $path, @dirs, $dir );

$re = shift || die "Usage:\n\t$0 <regex> <dir or file>\n";
# this should just snarf the rest of the arg(s) up...
$path = shift || die "Usage:\n\t$0 <regex> <dir or file>\n";

if ( -d $path ) {
	push @dirs, $path;
} elsif ( -T $path ) {
	grepfile ( $path );
	exit 0;
} else {
	die	("Must be a text file or directory.\nUsage:\n",
		 "\t$0 <regex> <dir or file>\n" );
}

$re = qr/$re/;

foreach $dir ( @dirs ) { getfiles ( $dir ) };

sub getfiles
{
	my $d = shift;
	my ( @files, @textfiles );

	opendir DIR, $d;
	@files = grep { ! /^\./ } readdir (DIR);
	closedir DIR;

	foreach my $f ( @files )
	{
		if ( -d "$d/$f" ) {
			push @dirs, "$d/$f";
			next;
		} elsif ( -T "$d/$f" ) {
			push @textfiles, "$d/$f";
		}
	}

	grepfile ( $_ ) for ( @textfiles );
}

sub grepfile
{
	my $file = shift;
	my $line_no = 0;

	open FILE, $file
		or die "Couldn't open file $file: $!";
	while (<FILE>)
	{
		$line_no++;
		print "$file, $line_no: $_" if ( $_ =~ m/$re/ );
	}
	close FILE
		or die "Couldn't close file $file: $!";
}
=========================<rtgrep>=========================

~sdpm~

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