On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Greg Tomczyk wrote:
> I am new to this list and hope someone, will be able to help me. I am
> trying to do a find/search on a directory tree and store the results of
> that find into an array which I can then manipulate. I can run find using
> the system command an put contents into a flat file, but I would like to
> understand this find2perl routing. I know find pretty well, but the
> documentation on find2perl is confusing to me. Can anyone help..
>
> Here is the Unix find command:
>
> find $dir -local -exec grep -q $string {} |;
>
>
> and I would like some sort of perl equivalent which would allow the results
> of this find to placed in @filelist...
Have you looked at the File::Find module?
-- Brett
http://www.chapelperilous.net/btfwk/
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