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AFAIK, the OP wanted to apply the regex to the contents of the files, not the names, so it should be: 

my @files = File::Find::Rule->grep( qr/regex/ )->in( @dirs );

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Re^3: File::Find: Return array of "wanted" files (File::Find::Rule)
by Anonymous Monk on Oct 04, 2013 at 08:30 UTC

    AFAIK, the OP wanted to apply the regex to the contents of the files, not the names, so it should be:

    Go figure, I thought it was a typo, oh well :)

    use File::Find::Rule qw/ find /;
    my @files = find( file => grep => qr/regex/, in => \@dirs, );

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      Thanks, File::Find::Rules works great.
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