Here it goes!! I am using File::find to search a directory that is several hundred folders deep with about 75 million files (I know, it was painful when I first looked at it as well)

I want to search out all of the jpgs and replace them with a zero byte file.

Somone recommended I open the jpg and close it right away to zero it out, but I wanted to run it by the group as well.

As always thank you! 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use File::Find;


find (
        {
                wanted => \&wanted ,
        },
        '/tmp/T1test'
);
        sub wanted
        {
        if( $File::Find::name =~ /\.jpg/i)
                {print "$_\n"}                          
        }

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In reply to Zero out particular file extentions once found by trenchwar

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