You seem to have the fastest solution. Unless I miss my guess, File::Find is too much for an operation like this: 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use Benchmark;
use File::Find;

my @paths = (split/\:/,$ENV{PATH});

sub which1 {
        my $filename= "test.txt";
        foreach my $pathname (@paths) {
                print "$pathname/$filename\n" if ( -e "$pathname/$file
+name" );
        };
}

sub which2 {
        my $filename = "test.txt";
        finddepth sub {print "$_\n" if ( /$filename$/)} , @paths;
}

timethese (100, {'whichone' => \&which1, 'whichtwo' => \&which2});

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Yields: 

[10:27:15 jhorner@gateway scripts]$ ./ch0as-1.pl test.txt
Benchmark: timing 100 iterations of whichone, whichtwo...
  whichone:  0 wallclock secs ( 0.01 usr +  0.02 sys =  0.03 CPU) @ 33
+33.33/s (n=100)
            (warning: too few iterations for a reliable count)
  whichtwo: 14 wallclock secs (12.54 usr +  1.55 sys = 14.09 CPU) @  7
+.10/s (n=100)

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Unless someone can tell me why the File::Find version takes so long, I'm stumped. I have a feeling it has to do with File::Find traversing the entire filetree under the @path directories. If someone can let me know how to make it search ONLY the @path directories and not subdirectories, I'll be grateful.

I also have a feeling that File::Find is overkill in this, since you aren't recursing the directory structure.

Anyone else have good info on this? 

J. J. Horner
Linux, Perl, Apache, Stronghold, Unix
jhorner@knoxlug.org http://www.knoxlug.org/

In reply to RE: Which by jjhorner
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