in reply to (tye)Re: find2perl with File::Find and -maxdepth
in thread find2perl with File::Find and -maxdepth

Hey thanks guys!

tye, i think i'll have to go with sam's version, since there's potentially hundreds of thousands of such files, and i really only want to work on ones created in the last 60 days or so... and i'm pretty sure i can do that with the File::Find stuff.

But, your 'simpler' solution is pretty elegant, given a *nix machine (which is indeed the case here).

sam, i think you should post your work here in the 'snippets' section or something, it's a rather useful thing to be able to do (if you need to), and find2perl doesn't do it... i'm sure other newbies could benefit.

Thanks again folks!

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(tye)Re2: find2perl with File::Find and -maxdepth
by tye (Sage) on Jun 03, 2002 at 00:50 UTC

    BTW, this works on more than just Unix. And it is easy to skip files that don't fit in a date range: 

        my @files= grep -C $_ <= 60,
        glob( "*/*/*/threads.html" );

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    Though this loads the entire list of files before it is stripped down so it still might not work for you.

            - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")
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