in reply to Recursive Directory Comparison Tools

I don't know of any modules for you particular problem, but I would recommend looking at File::DirSync. Synchronization may not be what you are looking for, but the code used for directory comparison is probably just what you are looking for.
use File::DirSync; my $dirsync = new File::DirSync { verbose => 1, nocache => 1, localmode => 1, }; $dirsync->ignore("CVS"); $dirsync->rebuild( $from ); # and / or $dirsync->dirsync( $from, $to );

-Mark