File::Basename and File::Find were released with perl 5.000. If your 5.004 installation is so trashed, you could always download the tarball, pull out the corresponding .pm files and stick them in a subdirectory named 'File'. They're pure-Perl.

Then you just have to use lib '.' and you're home free.

However, if you are brave and insist on the original approach...

I think I'm being a bit paranoid as the first .* is greedy

No, to not do so would possibly be incorrect. You could anchor the end of the match with '$' to help settle the issue for the engine though, and make the latter match non-greedy.

Also be aware of symlinks. If you have a symlink that points back to an ancestor directory, your script will run until the heat death of the universe, or until your machine runs out of swap, whichever comes first.

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