Hello learn-ed monks,

I'm writing some code to try and make some sense out of a mess of some windows file servers I have inherited. It's coming on quite nicely - I'm essentially trying to determine the size of various directories including all their subdirectories and files. To do this, I'm using File::Find::Rule with the following snippet of code: 

use strict;
use File::Find::Rule;

my $dir = "c:/temp/test";

my @results = File::Find::Rule->file->in( $dir );
my $totalsize = 0;
foreach my $result ( @results ) {
    $totalsize += (stat($result))[7];
}
my $mbtotalsize = $totalsize /1024 / 1024;

print "$dir=$mbtotalsize MB\n";

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The problem came when it tried to navigate a very deep directory: Can't cd to [very long path] at C:/Perl/lib/File/Find.pm line 929. The windows path-length at this point is waaaaay over the 255 character limit.

My question (finally!) is this - how can I stop File::Find::(Rule) dying at this point - I just want it to skip over any illegally named files (because of their path length). I could just change the File::Find module to "warn" instead of "die" at that point, but that may have unexpected consquences.

Any advice humbly received!

In reply to File:Find::Rule on Win32 by puploki

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