Re: Flushing Buffers (WAS: recursive search)

2005-12-03 Thread John Doe
The Ghost am Freitag, 2. Dezember 2005 19.30: Hi, In addition to John W. Krahn's good advices: So far I did this: #!/usr/bin/perl use File::Find; my $totalLines; find(\wanted, '@directories'); sub wanted { unless ($_=~m/.html|.mas|.pl|.txt$/i) {return 0;} #filter the

Re: Flushing Buffers (WAS: recursive search)

2005-12-03 Thread John W. Krahn
John Doe wrote: The Ghost am Freitag, 2. Dezember 2005 19.30: open FILE, $File::Find::name; Always check if operations succeeded: open (FILE, '', $File::Find::name) or die couldn't open $File::Find::name: $!; Thanks, don't know how I missed that. :-) John -- use

Re: Flushing Buffers (WAS: recursive search)

2005-12-03 Thread John W. Krahn
John Doe wrote: The Ghost am Freitag, 2. Dezember 2005 19.30: print $_: ; my @lines=FILE; and close opened files: close FILE or die couldn't close $File::Find::name: $!; print $#lines\n; $totalLines+=$#lines; #wanted's value is ignored so we have to do

Re: Flushing Buffers (WAS: recursive search)

2005-12-03 Thread John Doe
John W. Krahn am Samstag, 3. Dezember 2005 15.27: John Doe wrote: The Ghost am Freitag, 2. Dezember 2005 19.30: print $_: ; my @lines=FILE; and close opened files: close FILE or die couldn't close $File::Find::name: $!; print $#lines\n;

recursive search

2005-12-02 Thread The Ghost
I want to know how many new line chars there are in all files in a directory (and it's subdirectories). What's the best way? Thanks! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response

Re: recursive search

2005-12-02 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Dec 2, The Ghost said: I want to know how many new line chars there are in all files in a directory (and it's subdirectories). What's the best way? You'll want to use File::Find (a standard module) to do your directory recursion for you. For each file you get to, open it, count its

Re: recursive search

2005-12-02 Thread Chris Devers
On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, The Ghost wrote: I want to know how many new line chars there are in all files in a directory (and it's subdirectories). What's the best way? I'm sure this isn't how you want to do it, but this might work: $ cat `find . -type f` | wc -l It'll choke if you have too

RE: recursive search

2005-12-02 Thread Charles K. Clarkson
The Ghost mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : I want to know how many new line chars there are in all files : in a directory (and it's subdirectories). What's the best way? A lot depends on your idea of best. It might be that the best way is to hand the project off to someone else and reap

RE: recursive search

2005-12-02 Thread Thomas Bätzler
The Ghost [EMAIL PROTECTED]asked: I want to know how many new line chars there are in all files in a directory (and it's subdirectories). What's the best way? Use File::Find to iterate over the files and then sum up the newlines you find in each file. Counting the newlines in a single file is

Re: recursive search

2005-12-02 Thread Jennifer Garner
#!/usr/local/bin/perl # # recurs.pl # # This script executes recursively on subdirs the command you supply as a parameter # # Run program -h to see the run options # # Last modified: Apr 10 1997 # Author: Bekman Stas [EMAIL PROTECTED]; # [EMAIL PROTECTED]; $|=1;

RE: recursive search

2005-12-02 Thread Charles K. Clarkson
Jennifer Garner mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] : # Last modified: Apr 10 1997 [snip] Please do not provide outdated, buggy solutions to a beginners list. We are trying to do much more than just solve problems. We are (hopefully) fostering good programming skills first and

Re: Flushing Buffers (WAS: recursive search)

2005-12-02 Thread Shawn Corey
Jennifer Garner wrote: $|=1; Be careful with this one. The documentation for it makes it sound like it's a good idea to set this but doing so turns buffering OFF, not ON. Normally you leave this alone, even for pipes and sockets; Perl does the right thing in almost every case. See:

Re: Flushing Buffers (WAS: recursive search)

2005-12-02 Thread The Ghost
So far I did this: #!/usr/bin/perl use File::Find; my $totalLines; find(\wanted, '@directories'); sub wanted { unless ($_=~m/.html|.mas|.pl|.txt$/i) {return 0;} #filter the kinds of files you want open FILE, $File::Find::name; print $_: ; my @lines=FILE;

Re: recursive search

2005-12-02 Thread Shawn Corey
The Ghost wrote: So far I did this: #!/usr/bin/perl use File::Find; my $totalLines; find(\wanted, '@directories'); sub wanted { unless ($_=~m/.html|.mas|.pl|.txt$/i) {return 0;} #filter the kinds of files you want open FILE, $File::Find::name; print $_: ; my

Re: Flushing Buffers (WAS: recursive search)

2005-12-02 Thread John W. Krahn
The Ghost wrote: So far I did this: #!/usr/bin/perl That should be followed by these two lines: use warnings; use strict; use File::Find; my $totalLines; find(\wanted, '@directories'); Do you actually have a directory in the current directory named '@directories'? sub wanted