Hi Anonymous,

The issue is that if you tell your script to search a relative pathname (such as the default "."), then $File::Find::name will not be an absolute pathname either. Have a look at the Basic debugging checklist - this tells you that you should print your values, such as print $File::Find::name;, and you can find this out for yourself.

One way to fix this: 1. At the top of your script, add "use File::Spec::Functions qw/rel2abs/;" (see the function rel2abs in File::Spec), and 2. replace "shift || '.'" with "rel2abs(shift || '.')" - now all your search paths and therefore $File::Find::name should be absolute pathnames.

If it's just that one specific file, a regex is not necessary and you can use an exact match to exclude it: return if $File::Find::name eq '/var/log/test.out';

Hope this helps,
-- Hauke D

(P.S. I'm assuming that it's obvious that the regex /^\/var\/log\/lastlog/ won't help in excluding a file named test.out and that you just got your examples mixed up.)

In reply to Re^9: Restrict file search within current filessystem using wanted subroutine by haukex
in thread Restrict file search within current filessystem using wanted subroutine by madparu

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