Now, I know this question is kind of taken care of in the Q&A section (which is where I got the idea). However, I wanted to take the recursive listing of directories a little further, and look at using opendir, readdir, and for / map to find and delete contraband (e.g., .mp3 and .exe).

Of course, we all know that filename extensions can be changed, but that's not important as getting the basics down (for example, checking the last 128 bytes in a file for ID3 tags can help to identify an mp3). Here is my codebase (which needs some advising):
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

recurse('c:'); #testing this on a windows machine

sub recurse {
    my $dir = shift;
    #print $dir,$/;
    opendir(R,$dir) || die $!;
    my @dives = grep { $_ ne '.' && $_ ne '..' && -d $_ } readdir(R); 
+#build a list all of the directories
    @dives = map { join('/',$dir,$_) } @dives;
    print "$_\n" for @dives;
    my @contra_band = ('avi','mp3','mp2','mpeg');
    my @found;
    foreach my $a (@contra_band) {
        my @del = grep { $_ =~ /\Q$a\E$/ } readdir(R); #look for the f
+ile extensions
        map { push(@found,$_) } @del; #create an array of things to un
+link later
        print @del;
    }
   map { recurse($_) } @dives; #couldn't think of a for loop to do the
+ same thing... I don't know what is wrong with me today.
}

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The only problem with this code, is that it only seems to work on some directories and not others... Any further guidance is appreciated.

Theodore Charles III
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