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Re^2: ignore list of files using readdir function (grep filter)
by tbone654 (Beadle) on Jul 22, 2013 at 11:36 UTC
    Put what you want to exclude or include into a file (eg. file1) one per line... Put the output of the directory contents into file2...
    grep -i -v -f file1 file2
    similarly if you wish to "match" everthing in file1 leave off the -v
    grep -i -f file1 file2
    the -i ignores case so leave that off if you wish an exact match (case sensitive)
    grep -f file1 file2
    the first file after the -f is always the "from" file
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Re^2: ignore list of files using readdir function (grep filter)
by kaka_2 (Sexton) on Jul 23, 2013 at 07:10 UTC

    Hello There,

    I was able to use the grep in order to ignore the files with pattern

    sub GetINDirFiles {
    my ($path) = @_;

    opendir DIR, $path or die $!;
    my @files = readdir DIR;
    my @files = grep {!/\_ACK_/} readdir DIR;
    closedir DIR;

    return(@files);
}

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    now the problem i have is that there are around 5000 files and later when i compare these files agains another list of files, it takes too much time.

    So i was thinking is it possible to list files which are between current time to current time - 15 minute?

    Thank You. -KAKA-
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      So i was thinking is it possible to list files which are between current time to current time - 15 minute?

      Yes , of course it is possible, see stat and time

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