Hello! I wrote something recently, and then had to go through it and actually seperate things into a few lines to get it to work (not that I did it right the first time...) It's a simple code to make a list of files dropping out the first few levels of file paths. The code in question is here: 
use File::Find;

open (OUT, ">filelist.txt");

find( sub {
    $temp = $File::Find::name;
    $temp =~ s/C:\/users\/User\/Music\/(.*)/$1/gi;
    print OUT "$temp\n";
}, "C:/users/User/Music/");

close OUT;

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If you can't tell just by looking at it that I'm running Windows, you probably can't help me here :~)

It's Strawberry Perl 5.8

I recall reading once that someone wrote a web spider in one line...I'm not really good at one liners. Is there a way to squish 
    $temp = $File::Find::name;
    $temp =~ s/C:\/users\/User\/Music\/(.*)/$1/gi;
    print OUT "$temp\n";

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into two or even one lines? And does anyone know a good place to start looking for something like a brevity tutorial? I recently watched a podcast where the speaker said, "If statements are obsolete if you know how to use the space-ship operator!" I'm not so much looking to obfuscate, but I'd like to save a few keystrokes.

Thanks and Cheers!
~Petras
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