i found it...for some reason since i couldn't find "parameters" in the index
i freaked out, and after a few minutes i realized i could look up
"arguments"...been a long day...
tanya
-----Original Message-----
From: Trever Furnish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 2:33 PM
To: Tanya Graham; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: directory again
Unix: man perlrun
Windows: Open the perl documentation and read the section titled "perlrun".
Both: Take two aspirin.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> Tanya Graham
> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 4:02 PM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: directory again
>
>
> Does anyone know where I can find information on passing
> parameters (flags)
> on the command line?
> thank you
> tanya
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 9:13 AM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: Re: directory again
>
>
>
> >Hi,
> >I need to be able to recursively go through a directory and if i
> encounter
> a
> >file folder, perform the same actions on the files in that file folder.
> is
> >there a simple way to do this, like with an if-statement?
> >thanks
> >tanya graham
>
> Tanya,
>
> Please try to avoid replying with someone else's post, and just changing
> the subject, it's confusing.
>
> Everyone here seems to have gone far out of their way to respond to your
> earlier directory dilemma, including me, so allow me to now voice a few
> suggestions.
>
> >From your previous post, and this one I think it's fair to assume you are
> very new to perl. The reason I like this mailing list so much is
> that they
> are very kind to newbies, and I've never seen a flame war on this list.
> Being new, it's often easy to not even know where the documentation is.
> First, check the FAQ's, they are installed in HTML format when you install
> ActiveState perl, many "easy" problems can be resolved right there. Many
> people in response to your previous post pointed towards perldoc (perldoc
> -f opendir ) as a tool to find information about function and
> module usage.
> Another tool is PPM, which you can use to search for modules and install
> them from ActiveState's (or any other ) ppm repository. Often
> it's good to
> run a search for what you're looking for through there (such as "dir" or
> "file" in your case), install a few "likely" sounding packages
> and then run
> perldoc on them to see if they offer the features you are really looking
> for. You can type "help" in ppm for usage help, and perldoc perldoc will
> give you more than you ever wanted to know about how to use perldoc. Also
> look at the O'Reilly series of perl books, as they are invaluable
> resources. You can find info on them at www.perl.com. I apoligize to all
> for this long post, but while I think none of us has a problem helping, I
> personally have a problem when someone doesn't help themself first.
>
> To answer your current question, you may want to take a look at the
> File::Find module as this will recurse through a directory tree and can
> perform a specified callback (subroutine) on each file it finds.
>
> Sorry for the long post,
>
> Chuck
>
>
>
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