I'm stuck, here. What I'm trying to do is:
1. recurse through 5 different directory structures. Each directory structure contains identically named files.
2. compare each "file1" found with each of the 4 other "file1"'s and so on. I am comparing them for equal line count.

What I have doesn't work the way I want. Running this code in my test environment returns the following 

/home/maleah/sa/current/cluster1
file: test1: 12
file: test2: 24
file: config.hosts: 25
/home/maleah/sa/current/cluster2
file: test1: 37
file: test2: 49
file: config.hosts: 50
/home/maleah/sa/current/cluster3
file: test1: 62
file: test2: 74
file: config.hosts: 75
/home/maleah/sa/current/cluster4
file: test1: 87
file: test2: 99
file: config.hosts: 100
/home/maleah/sa/current/cluster5
file: test1: 112
file: test2: 124
file: config.hosts: 125

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#!/usr/bin/perl -w
 
use strict;
 
my $prefixDir = "$ENV{HOME}/sa/current";
my @clusterDirs= ("$prefixDir/cluster1", "$prefixDir/cluster2", "$pref
+ixDir/cluster3", "$prefixDir/cluster4", "$prefixDir/cluster5");
 
use vars qw ($configDir $configFile $lineCount $configFile $fileToComp
+are @configFileList);
 
foreach $configDir (@clusterDirs) {
  opendir DIR, "$configDir" or die "Cannot access $configDir: $!\n";
  @configFileList = grep /[^.]/, readdir DIR;print "$configDir\n";
 
foreach $fileToCompare (@configFileList) {
  open FILE, "$configDir/$fileToCompare" or die "file not available: $
+!\n";
  $lineCount++ while <FILE>;
print "file: $fileToCompare: $lineCount\n";
  }
}

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In reply to Comparing files with same name in different directories by Tuna

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