I'm not as familar with the "$/ = chr(0);" line. I know it changes the line termintion which I'm assuming is necessary to properly take in the pipe from find. (I haven't had a chance to test difference to see what happens.)

I did take a quick look in the documentation (http://search.cpan.org/~rgarcia/perl-5.9.4/pod/perlvar.pod) and it seems like it would be a little safer make the change local like:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

my @dirlist = qw(/dir/to/parse);

open( FIND, '-|', 'find', @dirlist, qw/-print0/ ) or die "find: $!";

{
  local $/ = chr(0);
  while (<FIND>) {
    chomp;
    print "Processing: $_\n";
  }
}

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From what I gather form the docs, this will make sure that the $/ change doesn't affect anything else and cause unexpected behavior. PLEASE NOTE, I have not had a chance to test that code, so it may not work in part or whole.

In reply to Re^2: File::Find with sudo from root by anotherSmith
in thread File::Find with sudo from root by anotherSmith

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