It would seem to me that that particular module's paradigm for extracting files from the file system could pose some serious memory issues if the rules that you specify result in returning nearly all of the files in the tree you specified, which may certainly be the case if you're specifying just a lenient "not" rule for pruning things out. This is akin to slurping an entire file instead of reading it line by line. Often you can get away with it as the file will be of a reasonable length, but sometimes you'll get burned when you try to blast an enormous file into memory. Slurp a short config file, and nobody will notice; slurp a SQL transaction log that hasn't been rotated recently and you could bring the system to its knees. Caveat Slurpor.

In reply to Re: Re: Pruning directory searches with File::Find by skyknight
in thread Pruning directory searches with File::Find by annie

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