I "inherited" the maintance of a certain program that is run weekly to generate some useage statistics. The original program used a qx/find `cat $html_dir/$good_file` -type d -name class -print | wc -l/ to count the instances of a directory named 'class' in all the subdirectories in a list.

Well now the directories can contain spaces in the names which drives the find command nuts, so I decided to rewrite that functionality in perl. After getting the list of directories to look though, I am trying to use File::Find to count for 'class' subdirs. Unfortunatly, this code is not decending into subdirectories correctly. When I run the program the counter only gets to 3. I know for a fact that there are more than 3 of these subdiretories.

Anyone have any ideas on things to try? 


my $ltotal = 0;

foreach my $dir (@good_dirs) {
     chomp($dir);
     unless ($dir eq "") {
          File::Find::find({wanted => \&wanted}, "/mnt/$dir");
     }
}

sub wanted {
     my ($dev,$ino,$mode,$nlink,$uid,$gid);

     (($dev,$ino,$mode,$nlink,$uid,$gid) = lstat($_)) &&
     -d _ &&
     /^class\z/s &&
     $ltotal++;
}

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In reply to Problems using File::Find by thewalledcity

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