yunglean808 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello monks! I need assistance with creating a function that will look recursively in an output directory for TAR files, and then returns them in a list as a path to another directory. Any insight would be very helpful. Thank you!
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Re: look through directory for tar files only
by 1nickt (Canon) on Aug 04, 2015 at 16:57 UTC

    It's not clear what you mean by "and then returns them in a list as a path to another directory." if you need to copy or move the files, please post a follow-up question. Here's a suggestion for finding the files:

    See File::Find::Rule 

    my $dir   = '/some/path';
my @files = File::Find::Rule->file()
                              ->name( '*.tar' )
                                ->in( $dir );

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    The way forward always starts with a minimal test.
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      *cough* 
      use File::Find::Rule qw/ find rule /;
my @files = find( name => '*.tar', in => $dir );

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Re: look through directory for tar files only
by fishmonger (Chaplain) on Aug 04, 2015 at 16:56 UTC
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