-type: -f: unknown type

rickkar has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

in running the code below i get

amc-~$ perl test3.pl

find: -type: -f: unknown type

need help in figuring out how to remedy

find: -type: -f: unknown type

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use 5.010;
use LWP::Simple;
use File::Find;         # for traversing directory and locating a part
+icular file
use File::Copy;
use XML::Simple;        # for parsing XML
use JSON::Parse;        # for parsing JSON format

#use Data::Dumper qw(pp);
use Data::Dumper;
#use Data::Dump qw(pp);

my $filepath_root = '/Users/karcichr/Downloads/Elsevier/fulltext/elsev
+ier/historical/' || shift @ARGV;

for( my @files = qx{find $filepath_root -name 'main.xml' -type -f} )  
+ # step (1+2)
{
       my $ref = XMLin( $_ );  # step (3)
        {
                die "Showing first main.xml xml: ", pp( $ref ); # dump
+ $ref structure, so to learn where doi/title is
        }
}
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Re: -type: -f: unknown type by space_monk (Chaplain) on Oct 31, 2012 at 03:01 UTC
The simple answer is surely that it should be `qx{find $filepath_root -name 'main.xml' -type f}` [download] Note the removal of the '-' before the 'f'. There may be better solutions than making a call to the shell though.....	[reply] [d/l]
Re: -type: -f: unknown type by Anonymous Monk on Oct 30, 2012 at 23:37 UTC
Why are you using qx instead of File::Find::find()? $ find2perl $filepath_root -name main.xml -type -f #! c:\perl\5.14.1\bin\MSWin32-x86-multi-thread\perl.exe -w eval 'exec c:\perl\5.14.1\bin\MSWin32-x86-multi-thread\perl.exe -S + $0 ${1+"$@"}' if 0; #$running_under_some_shell use strict; use File::Find (); # Set the variable $File::Find::dont_use_nlink if you're using AFS, # since AFS cheats. # for the convenience of &wanted calls, including -eval statements: use vars qw/name dir prune/; name = File::Find::name; dir = File::Find::dir; prune = *File::Find::prune; sub wanted; # Traverse desired filesystems File::Find::find({wanted => \&wanted}, $filepath_root); exit; sub wanted { my ($dev,$ino,$mode,$nlink,$uid,$gid); /^main\.xml\z/s && (($dev,$ino,$mode,$nlink,$uid,$gid) = lstat($_)) && -f _ && print("$name\n"); } [download]	[reply] [d/l]