Hi Monks,

I am an old dog trying to learn some PERL tricks. I am getting back into PERL after more than a decade away. I am attempting to use File::Find to search for multiple patters and return the results as an array.

I have read the Beginners Guide and combed this site but I must be missing something simple?

Here's what I have so far

use strict;
use warnings;
use Posix;
use File::Find;

sub findfile
{
    my @Result = ();
    my $Start = $_[0];
    
    print "Start: [$Start]\n";
    
    if (scalar(@_) >= 2) {

        foreach my $x (1 .. scalar(@_) - 1) {
            
            
            find(
                    sub {
                                            
                        my @finds = grep { $_ =~ /$_[$x]/ } ($File::Fi
+nd::name);
                                            
                        if (scalar(@finds) > 0) {
                            my $find=$finds[0];
                            
                            if ($find eq $File::Find::name) {
                                push @Result, $File::Find::name;
                                return;
                            }
                        }
                    
                    },
                    $Start
                );
            
        }
        
        return @Result;
    }
}

my @Paths = findfile("C:/Program Files (x86)/Nimsoft/bin", "*.exe", "*
+.txt");

foreach ( @Paths ) { print "$_\n"; }

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The output is as follows: 
C:/Program Files (x86)/Nimsoft/bin
C:/Program Files (x86)/Nimsoft/bin/nimalarm.exe
C:/Program Files (x86)/Nimsoft/bin/nimboss.exe
C:/Program Files (x86)/Nimsoft/bin/nimbus.exe
C:/Program Files (x86)/Nimsoft/bin/nimqos.exe
C:/Program Files (x86)/Nimsoft/bin/nimqosdefinition.exe
C:/Program Files (x86)/Nimsoft/bin/pu.exe
C:/Program Files (x86)/Nimsoft/bin
C:/Program Files (x86)/Nimsoft/bin/nimalarm.exe
C:/Program Files (x86)/Nimsoft/bin/nimboss.exe
C:/Program Files (x86)/Nimsoft/bin/nimbus.exe
C:/Program Files (x86)/Nimsoft/bin/nimqos.exe
C:/Program Files (x86)/Nimsoft/bin/nimqosdefinition.exe
C:/Program Files (x86)/Nimsoft/bin/pu.exe

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I am going cross-eyed trying to figure this out. Why am I getting the list of exe files twice? Also, I don't get why the directory itself is printing out?

Any assistance would be very much appreciated

I also know I am showing Windows here. But, if possib;e the routine would be able to run on Linux/Unix as well.

In reply to Finding files with multiple patterns by pgduke65

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