#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use File::Find;

my $dir    = '/home/me/Desktop/tasks/Korpora/';
my $string = 'Alice ';


open my $results, '>', '/home/me/Desktop/results.txt'
    or die "Unable to open results file: $!";

find(\&printFile, $dir);

sub printFile {

    return unless -f and /\.html$/;

    open my $fh, '<',, $_ or do {
        warn qq(Unable to open "$File::Find::name" for reading: $!);
        return;
    };

    while (<$fh>) {
        if (/\Q$string/) {
            print $results "$File::Find::name\n";
            return;
        }
    }
}

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Dear Monks, I have a big directory with html articles, where I would like to search for several strings at the same time. For example for: Alice, Tom, Jamie, party, something. How can I do it with the module file find? I have already tried to search for $string1 and $string2 and also $string1&&string2, but it doesn't work. I am a newbie and haven't worked with file find before, but it seems to be the easiest way. Can you help me? Thanks in advance!

In reply to File::Find find several strings in one directory by Staralfur

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