Sounds like a job for File::Find. How about something like this?
#!/usr/bin/perl -w use File::Find; finddepth(\&output, '.'); sub output { return if $File::Find::name !~ /.mp3$/; print "<p>$File::Find::dir</p>\n"; (my $n = $File::Find::name) =~ s/.*\///; print "\t<blockquote>$n</blockquote>\n"; }
Update:
I'm not sure what you mean by it's printing out a directory at the top of MP3 name. If you'd like the directory name to print only once then you can save the previous one in a global maybe and then check to see if they match. If they don't match then print the name of the directory. ie.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w use File::Find; use vars qw($prev); finddepth(\&output, '.'); sub output { return if $File::Find::name !~ /.mp3$/; print "<p>$File::Find::dir</p>\n" if $File::Find::dir ne $prev; $prev = $File::Find::dir; (my $n = $File::Find::name) =~ s/.*\///; print "\t<blockquote>$n</blockquote>\n"; }
By the way, it's much easier to use finddepth for your recursive search, than to roll your own recursive search.
HTH

In reply to RE: Easier way to do this by steveAZ98
in thread Easier way to do this by LoneRanger

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