$target is just the filename you are looking for, "secret.file" in your case.
The difference is that my code is exiting the wanted function immedeatly when it is not dealing with a directory. Only if there is a directory it is looking wether the target file is in that directory.

Whereas your code looks at each and every file, calculates its' base path (albeit unneccessary, that info is already there in $File::Find::name). And then it takes that base directory to look for the target file.
This, and this is the biggest slowdown, also means that you are testing the same directory number-of-entries-in-the-directory times.


holli

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In reply to Re^3: Finding files recursively by holli
in thread Finding files recursively by ovedpo15

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