Re^2: stat function used with linux find gives me no data

Thank you. At first I tried:

$output = chomp($_);
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That didn't work. So I found, from the online documentation, how to properly use chomp(). I tried:

$output = $_;
chomp($output);
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... and it worked!

Thank you, also, for those other suggestions. I will also give File::Find, File::Find::Rule and Path::Tiny a try soon.

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Re^3: stat function used with linux find gives me no data by hippo (Archbishop) on Oct 13, 2022 at 12:44 UTC
Well done for consulting the docs - they really are rather good. You might also want to know that a simple assignment can be chomped as well so you could write this as `chomp ($output = $_);` instead. Full demo script: `#!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings; $_ = "foo\n"; print "in: '$_'\n"; chomp (my $output = $_); print "out: '$output'\n";` [download] I concur with others in warning against shelling out to `find` for your original task, not least because of the vagaries of the arguments and output formats of such a utility across platforms. Stick with the modules which come with Perl or are on CPAN for better portability. 🦛	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: stat function used with linux find gives me no data by NERDVANA (Priest) on Oct 13, 2022 at 23:04 UTC
from the online documentation In case you didn't know, you can also find out about any perl function with `perldoc -f chomp` from the command line, or `perldoc MODULENAME` for any installed perl module. On Unix, you can often see them as manual pages as well: `man MODULENAME`, but that depends on your distro.	[reply] [d/l] [select]