I found a way to trick the Perl compiler into not complaining, though I suspect this may be a bug but that's also not something I can fix or correct, the solution proved to be quite simple:

$File::Find::prune = 1 if defined $File::Find::prune;

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I'd definitely put this in the category of a hackish fix, but it's easy to do, and worked, and didn't take any convolutions so I guess it's good enough. Hopefully anyone in the future who comes across this issue can resolve the problem with this simple trick. Since $File::Find::prune wont' be defined prior to require File::Find being run, perl doesn't care about it when it's checking the code on start, and since when this feature runs, File::Find::prune is defined, it works as expected. Not super intuitive, obviously, but there you have it, a fix, that works!

In reply to Re^3: Why $FIle::Find::prune = 1 returns used only once error by h2
in thread Why $FIle::Find::prune = 1 returns used only once error by h2

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