I have a script which poplulates filenames and last modified time of the respective file under a particular directory. I have used DosGlob module to specify the regex.

Sample directory structure is:

//share16/ABC/X/Output/1/

//share16/ABC/X/Output/2/

//share16/ABC/Y/Output/1/

//share16/ABC/Y/Output/2/

Below is the code which does the above and there is further code after this which is out of present context.

use File::DosGlob 'glob';
my @dir_regex = glob "//share16/ABC/*/Output/";
for my $dir (@dir_regex)
{
find({ wanted => \&process_file, no_chdir => 1 }, $dir) or die $!;  
}
sub process_file
{
my $dummy = $_;
if (-f $dummy)
{
my $filename = "//share16/TOOLS/report.txt";
open(my $fh, '>>', $filename) or die "Could not open file '$filename' 
+$!";
my $last_mod_time = ctime(stat($dummy)->mtime);
print $fh "$last_mod_time $dummy\n";
}
close $fh;
}

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The script successfully lists down the files under all folders (folder 1, folder 2) under the first directory X but fails immediately when it starts reading the folder Y.

Error: No such file or directory at \\share16\traverse4.pl line 5.

I am clueless as to why it is failing as I have tried hardcoding the foldername in @dir_regex but it still fails after listing the files under the first directory.

In reply to Perl DosGlob fails after first evaluation of regex by syedirfan23

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