Probably a no-brainer, but I wondered what is the canonical way or possibly a module that does this chore:
Identify files by type similar to `-type' flag to unix `find' command. I first thought of the stat function, but I see I'm confused about what that does. None of the array elements are about type. One of them `mode' claims to be about `type' but I'm not conversant with the numeric output of that element. And it doesn't seem to be explained in language spoken by mortals in perldoc -f stat All the gobbledeegook about bit-anding masking etc would be rendered unecessary by an (often omitted) simple example. There is an example showing how to get the permissions from $mode but I couldn't begin to reverse engineer it to get type. Maybe File::Find has an option but I don't find it in the docs. Along with this `typing' action I wondered if there is a perl equivalent to unix `file' command. I browsed all the modules turned up with a search string of file type on cpan, but none revealed this functionality. At least not in a hasty scan. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
