Re^3: Descending a directory tree, returning a list of files

There’s just no point in doing such a mundane chore “by hand.”

Unless you need to do it "by hand" because the modules on CPAN don't do what you need to do. Perhaps I missed it, but I didn't find any of the "file finders" modules (as you called them) that would handle long file paths (>260 characters) in Windows. Looking at possibly using Win32::LongPath to roll my own code to search through a Windows filesystem and handle the long path names.

Until I hit this long path issue, I probably would have agreed with what you said.

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Re^4: Descending a directory tree, returning a list of files by Anonymous Monk on Jun 10, 2015 at 06:51 UTC
Unless you need to do it "by hand" because the modules on CPAN don't do what you need to do. Perhaps I missed it, but I didn't find any of the "file finders" modules (as you called them) that would handle long file paths (>260 characters) in Windows. Looking at possibly using Win32::LongPath to roll my own code to search through a Windows filesystem and handle the long path names. Until I hit this long path issue, I probably would have agreed with what you said. Yeah, but chances are, you still don't need to do it "by hand" :) see Win32::Unicode , https://metacpan.org/pod/Win32::Unicode::Dir#findW-code-dir, with Path::Tiny like Re: links in pathnames under Windows 8 , Re^5: Trouble with File::Find::Rule (win32 unicode overload file test operators), Re^5: Is File::Find Unicode-(Conformant\|Compliant\|Enabled\|Capable)?, mocking overloading filetest operator callback -f -d -e -X, ...	[reply]

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Re^4: Descending a directory tree, returning a list of files
by Anonymous Monk on Jun 10, 2015 at 06:51 UTC

Yeah, but chances are, you still don't need to do it "by hand" :)

see Win32::Unicode , https://metacpan.org/pod/Win32::Unicode::Dir#findW-code-dir, with Path::Tiny like Re: links in pathnames under Windows 8 , Re^5: Trouble with File::Find::Rule (win32 unicode overload file test operators), Re^5: Is File::Find Unicode-(Conformant|Compliant|Enabled|Capable)?, mocking overloading filetest operator callback -f -d -e -X, ...

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