Hi folks,

I have a script that's two fold (it's actually two scripts). The first part grabs a recursive list of files and folders in a directory structure, and strips out CVS files. It then dumps them to a config file that's just a staight line by line list of the files, which I in turn read back into another script.

I realize this is a pretty newbie question, so I need to precursor this with the fact that I'm very, very new at Perl and most of my scripting skill is based on searches here, google and O'Reilly books. :)

Anyhow, my script outputs files, but puts in the "./" before the filename. So my config file reads as:

./filename.x
./otherfile.x

etc, etc

I'd like to strip out the leading "./" before putting them into the output file, so that I can use the second script to run a "cvs co" on each line in the config file.

Without further ado, here's my script, with the header spam stripped:

use strict;
use Data::Dumper;
use IO::File;

######################################################################
+#####
#                 Helper sub routine calls
######################################################################
+#####
system ("clear");
print "Building project config.\n\n";

sub find
{
   my ( $dir ) = @_;

   my $dh;
   my @theseFiles;                                                    
+               
   opendir $dh, $dir or return;
                                                                      
   while(my $file = readdir $dh )
   {
      next if $file =~ /^\.{1,2}$/;
      my $full_file = "$dir/$file";
      if ( -d $full_file )
      {
    push(@theseFiles,find($full_file));
      }
      else
      {
         push(@theseFiles,$full_file);
       }
    }
   closedir $dh;
   return @theseFiles;

}

######################################################################
+#####
#                  Main routine starts here
######################################################################
+#####

## Grab all files ##
my @files = find('.');

## Filter out CVS ##
my @noCvsDirs;
foreach my $file (@files) {
    push(@noCvsDirs,$file) unless(($file =~ /\/CVS\//) || ($file =~ /\
+~/));
}

## Save out to config file hwconfig.cfg ##
#my $dump = Data::Dumper->new([\@noCvsDirs])->Purity(1)->Indent(0);
#my $state = $dump->Dump();
my $state = join("\n",@noCvsDirs);

my $fh = new IO::File(">hwconfig.cfg");
die("Checkpoint failed for hwconfig.cfg - $!\n") unless($fh);

my $bytes = $fh->syswrite($state, length($state));
$fh->close();
unless($bytes == length($state)) {
    die("Checkpoint failed, incomplete write for hwconfig.cfg\n");
} else {
    print "Saved $bytes bytes into file: hwconfig.cfg\n";
}
exit;
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If someone could tell me the best way to remove the "./" from each filename that gets pushed to the array, I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks much!

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