I am running File::Find 1.07 (ActiveState Perl 5.8.6) from the a cygwin command line on a deep file structure. File::Find dies with this error: 
$ ./perl5.8.6 -MFile::Find -e 'sub w {1}; find (\&w, "\\\\usoaahs10\\c
+ommon\\XYZ Production Support");'
Can't cd to \\usvwoaahs100\common\gedas Production Support/MiscSystems
+/unknown VB apps/Training Server/Michele Backup/Temporary Computer Ba
+ckup/Documents and Settings/inacomp/Local Settings/Application Data/I
+dentities/{0FEFDF2D-79B6-45A8-8ED8-AE6F59669687}/Microsoft../../../..
+/../../.. at d:/Perl586/lib/File/Find.pm line 928.

[download]
Microsoft is an empty directory at the very bottom of the structure. I can cd into that directory from the cygwin bash shell. It looks like a slash is missing between Microsoft and all the dot-dot-slash patterns. Any ideas? Thanks!

In reply to File::Find bug? by Anonymous Monk

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.