Hi Doug,
Thanks for taking the time to reply as well as sharing these
examples. This helps greatly!! :-)
Thanks again!
Jay
>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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