Hi, welcome to the Monastery,

That tutorial, while still probably valid, is almost 20 years old. File::Find is still the core Perl module, but there are modern wrappers to make life easier.

See Path::Tiny which is modern Perl's basic file-handling tool, and which includes an iterator() method as well as a wrapper around that (visit()) which takes a callback to be executed on every file found.

You didn't show an example of your File::Find code, but I'd rather steer you towards a modern tool anyway, so here's a demo: 

$ ls -d vskatusa/*/*/*
vskatusa/blarg/blorg/blech    vskatusa/foo/bar/baz

$ perl -Mstrict -MPath::Tiny -wE 'say for path("vskatusa")->children'
vskatusa/blarg
vskatusa/foo

$ echo 'frooble' > vskatusa/textfile

$ perl -Mstrict -MPath::Tiny -wE 'say for path("vskatusa")->children'
vskatusa/blarg
vskatusa/textfile
vskatusa/foo

$ perl -Mstrict -MPath::Tiny -wE 'path("vskatusa")->visit(sub { say if
+ $_->is_dir });'
vskatusa/blarg
vskatusa/foo

[download]

For more complex file-finding use cases (which yours is not), see Path::Iterator::Rule by the same author.

Hope this helps!


The way forward always starts with a minimal test.

In reply to Re: File::Find - Traverse the first level directories from starting point - How? by 1nickt
in thread File::Find - Traverse the first level directories from starting point - How? by vskatusa

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.