I don't think find returns anything, which would cause the "print ..." bit of your condition to be executed. So your find is actually running successfully. There's no need to check for an error.

Were you expecting find to return something?

As for the "Illegal seek"--running the code through the debugger, it seems that $! gets set to "Illegal seek" after the call to Cwd::cwd(). And in Cwd::cwd (aliased to Cwd::_backtick_pwd), it gets set after running this line: 

    chop($cwd = `pwd`);

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You can actually take out the chop, and still get the error: 
    print "Before: ", $!, "\n";
    my $cwd = `pwd`;
    print "After: ", $!, "\n";

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gives 
    Before:
    After: Illegal seek

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And in fact, I get this w/ any backtick call: 
    print "Before: ", $!, "\n";
    my $cwd = `date`;
    print "After: ", $!, "\n";

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gives the same output. So it doesn't look like this is anything to worry about.

In reply to Re: Illegal seek from Find::File by btrott
in thread Illegal seek from Find::File by infoninja

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