in reply to Re: Re: Searching a directory tree
in thread Searching a directory tree

I think you're missing the power of the Unix find coomand :) find will not only find the file that you want, but it will also carry out the correct operations on them. find2perl will then fill in the &wanted subroutine with the correct commands to mirror that behaviour. For example, your full find command would be something like this:

find /home/www/*/logs/weekly -exec "gzip {} \| mail me@somewhere \;"

Try passing that to the find2perl command and you'll get stuff in the &wanted subroutine.

See the find man page for more details of cool things you can do with find.

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Searching a directory tree
by wylie (Novice) on Aug 10, 2001 at 15:59 UTC
    You're right. I was but now I've seen the light :).

    Many thanks Dave.

    Wylie