I have been reading through the File::Find threads trying to find an answer to this question, but wasn't able to quite find it. I want to write the equivalent of this ksh command in perl: 
find /h -depth -type f -name *.[!ao] -print

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which should find all files, except those of .a or .o I am willing to redirect them to a file, and then read that into a file. (It was difficult for me to follow the redirections for Find::File.)

I was able to get fully qualified pathnames with File::Find, but wasn't able to exclude certain extensions, and I didn't quite follow some of the redirecting of standard output. If I change the default for standard output, does it revert at some point, or do I have to manually reset it?

What just occurred to me now, is the not completely elegant solution of running a ksh script, doing the file find, and then running the perl program, reading the file list from standard input. Maybe that would be easiest....

In reply to Finding files excluding some by david.paige

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