Hi Monks,

I am currently getting a list of files from a directory hiearchy with this script which works great (user name and full name get appended at end of file path):
use File::Find; 
use File::stat; 

my $dir = "path/to/directory"; 

find ( {'
wanted' => sub {
 my $file = $File::Find::name; 
($n, $p, $uig, $gid, $dq, $c, $fn, $d, $s) = 
getpwuid (stat($file)-> uid); 
if (-f && (/^[^.]/) ) { 
print $file.":".$n.":".$fn; 
} 
}, 
'preprocess' => sub { 
@_ = map { $_->[0] }  
sort { $a->[1] cmp $b->[1] || $a->[2] <=> $b->[2] } 
map { m/(\d+)(\.[^.]+$)/ ? [$_, $2.$`,int($1)] : [$_, "", ""] } @_;
 @_ = grep (/^[^\.]/, @_) 
} 
}
,$dir);'

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The thing is that most of the files are file sequences like this:

image_sequenceA.1.tif
image_sequenceA.2.tif
image_sequenceA.3.tif
image_sequenceB.40.tif
image_sequenceB.41.tif
image_sequenceB.42.tif

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So I would love to be able to filter the results to only get one entry per sequence like this:

image_sequenceA.[1-3].tif
image_sequenceB.[40-42].tif

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Please note that the sequences dont have padded numbers but I am already solving that with the map and sort above so now I just need to only print the unique sequences.

Actually since I am getting the full path and also attaching the user the output should ultimately look like this:

path/to/directory/image_sequenceA.[1-3].tif:bob:Bob User
path/to/directory/image_sequenceB.[40-42].tif:frank:Frank User

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Thanks.

In reply to Detect file sequences in File:Find results by aes1972

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