I think it depends on whether your 'few' directories are full pathnames or all '.CVS' directories as above. Or some other requirement we don't know about.

Here's something that includes the first two: 

use File::Find;

my @abs_dirs=qw(/dont/go/here /stay/out);
my @all_dirs=qw(.CVS .stayout);

my %abs_dirs;
@abs_dirs{@abs_dirs}=();
my %all_dirs;
@all_dirs{@all_dirs}=()

find (sub {
 $File::Find::prune=1, return if -d and (exists $abs_dirs{$File::Find:
+:name} or exists $all_dirs{$_});

 # Process other files, dirs
 #
}, ".");

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Update: runrigs fix (see below) was incorporated

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

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