Sorry, but I think that's rather doubtful. The suggestions above that use readdir or globs are really quite simple and compact, in addition to being very direct and easy to comprehend.

The calling and callback mechanisms for File::Find, in contrast, are relatively Byzantine -- obscure and fraught with traps for the unwary and uninitiated. (Much more study and learning is needed to use File::Find at all, let alone use it effectively.) Not only that, but File::Find tends to consume more run-time than other approaches. It has it's uses, but I don't think this is one of them.

Speaking of reducing run-time, when adopting one of the glob or readdir approaches above, I'd put the regex match before the "-f" test, since doing a stat on every file will take a little extra time, compared to stat'ing just the ones that match the file name pattern.

In reply to Re^2: Delete files matching pattern by graff
in thread Delete files matching pattern by bofh_of_oz

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