Here is a fairly simple one I used recently. In my case I used
finddepth (searches from the bottom up instead of top down) because I
was renaming folders and File::Find couldn't chdir to the folder after I
had changed the name. find() works the same way.
In the example below, finddepth runs my subroutine BadNames on every
file below c:\Directory.
###########################################################
use strict;
use warnings;
use File::Find;
$| = 1; #Autoflush STDOUT
#finddepth comes from File::Find
#finddepth searches from the bottom of the tree up
finddepth(\&BadNames,"c:\\Directory");
sub BadNames{
#NOTE: finddepth chdirs to the directory it's
# traversing and sets the filename to $_.
# $File::Find::name is the full path to the file
#if it contains a &,#, or ends with .com
if($_ =~ /(\&|\#|\.com$)/){
print "Converting ".$File::Find::name."...";
my $filename = $_;
$filename =~ s/\&/and/g;
$filename =~ s/\#/_/g;
$filename =~ s/\.com$/\.com_/i;
#Rename the file
rename($_,$filename) or die "Couldn't rename $_!";
print "done\n";
}
}
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 12:39 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: File::Find implementation
Hello:
I got some advice on how to obtain a listing of all the files on a hard
drive. The advice was to use File::find. I looked at the perl document
and I am a little confused and so a simple example would be nice. I
would like to get the file name, directory path, size and date of last
modification. This is being run on a pc. How can I get this information
into an array? How would the file entry look.
I know I will need a @file_list = find(param list where c:\ would be the
top level directoru);
Thanks,
Andrew
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