Well, this is enlightenment - of the can of worms variety! Looking at my code, I 'find' <sigh> that just about my whole script is actually already inside a 'find'.

So I'll re-work the whole thing using the breadth-first approach, but it's a real shame when such a useful thing as File::Find turns out to have such limitations.

Can anyone suggest an alternative searching module to File::Find before I start chopping up my script?

Dave