The answer you are looking for is the File::Find module. This module encapsulates recursing through directories very well.

Some code to get you started :

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

use File::Find;

my @searchdirs = ( ".", "c:/", "d:/" );

# And here is the regular expression to check
# for an unwanted directory. In my example,
# I chose the directory name .CVS as an
# "unwanted" directory
my $unwanteddir = ".CVS";

find( sub {
  # In this function,we decide what to do 
  # with each thing we find. We find both,
  # files and directories.
  
  # first check, if we have a directory :
  if (-d $File::Find::name) {
    print "Directory : $File::Find::name\n";
    # Now we check if it is unwanted :
    if ($File::Find::name =~ m!(^|/)$unwanteddir(/|$)!) {
      print "In unwanted directory.\n";
      # And tell File::Find that we don't want to look at
      # this directory
      $File::Find::prune = 1;
    };
  } elsif (-f $File::Find::name) {
    # It's a file
    print "File : $File::Find::name\n";
  } else {
    # It's a symlink or something else we can't handle
  };

} , @subdirs );        # here is the end of the find() function call

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In reply to Re: How do I recurse all *but* a few directories? by Corion
in thread How do I recurse all *but* a few directories? by SamQi

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