Is there a way to abort a File::Find::find command from within the wanted subroutine. I'm attempting to find files with the same inode, but I can happily stop when I've found as many links as the link count of the target file

This is my hideous solution:

#!/usr/bin/perl 

use File::Find;

my ($dir,$file) = @ARGV;

# TODO usage, file and directory check

my ($finode,$fnlinks) = (lstat($file))[1,3];

# TODO check for link count of 1
  
my @files;

find(sub {

       return if $fnlinks == 0; # this is rubbish

       my ($inode,$nlink) = (lstat($_))[1,3];

       return unless $inode == $finode;

       push(@files, $File::Find::name); 

       $fnlinks--;
     }, 
     $dir);

print map {"$_\n"} @files;

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Steve Marvell

In reply to aborting File::Find::find by marvell

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