SPUG: Re: File::Find, skipping next directory

[Jeremy Mates]

* John Subaykan <cansubaykan at hotmail.com> [2003-01-06T11:53-0800]:
> so is there a way to skip the whole directory using File::Find without 
> modifying the path of the starting directory (in my case e.g. without 
> changing "topdir" to "topdir/dir78")?

See File::Find::prune in 'perldoc File::Find'

> a 'by-the-way' question; why do we use words like "Zub" or "[s]ub" on this 
> email list to avoid typing the letters "s", "u", and "b" together?  I chose 
> "s?b" just to be different and I'm just asking because my name begins with 
> these three letters.

administrivia       =   yes

Is likely enabled in the majordomo config for the list, and should be
set to no.  The default check yields a large number of false positives.

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