in reply to 'Permission Denied' error from File::Find

Geetings, witandhumor!

After running your code on my Win32 machine, I received the same (or a similar) error about permissions. A few well placed print statements and switches flipped later, I found that File::Find was finding the . file/directory first. The open is the part that seems to fail when it attempts to open the . file/directory.

I did a few file tests (-r and -f) to find only readable plain files. This happily skips over the . and .. files/directories.

Here's code that does not get the same file permission error: 
#!c:\perl\bin\perl.exe -w

use strict;
use File::Find;
use Carp;

#variables
my ($directory,$file,$text);

print "Enter search text: ";
    $text = <STDIN>;
      chomp $text;

$directory = 'c:\my_directory';
find (\&search,$directory);

sub search {
    my $file = $File::Find::name;
    if (-r $file && -f $file) {
      open (FILE, "$file") or carp "Guess what, it didn't work!\n$!";
      my $line = <FILE>;
      close FILE;
      print "$text - $file"
      if $line =~ /$text/;
    }

}

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Hope this helps!

-Daruma

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Re: Re: 'Permission Denied' error from File::Find
by witandhumor (Pilgrim) on Feb 12, 2004 at 03:18 UTC
    All:
    With all of the help given to me here(and some one-on-one tutoring) I was able to work out most of my issues! Thank you very much!!!!!!!!!!!

    Here is my most recent attempt..getting there

    #!c:\perl\bin\perl.exe -w

use strict;
use File::Find;


#variables
my ($directory,$file,$text);

print "Enter search text: ";
    $text = <STDIN>;
      chomp $text;

$directory = 'c:\my_directory';
find (\&search,$directory);

sub search {
    my $file = $File::Find::name;
    if (-r $file && -f $file) {
    open (FILE, "$file") or die "Guess what, it didn't work! $!\n";
    while (my $line = <FILE>) {
    print "$text - $file\n"
    if $line =~ /$text/;
    }    
}
close FILE;
}

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