GrandFather thanks for the advice on proper programming I cleaned up a lot of that code. I've become too lazy and that gave me a little kick. I'm interested in Algorithm::Diff but will need time to investigate.

graff that's just way too simple I'm incredibly impressed and I've already got a good start on it. I like it, and it seems incredibly fast, however I find a few caveats. I need to use find -follow due to my file structure(need to follow links pointing to other partitions), but I receive loads of errors when it finds null links. How can I manage this and output to a file or is there a different approach. Also, I had to use an egrep -v to filter out directories I don't want. Any other solution as I always try to stay away from using system commands within perl?

UPDATE: If I use find -type d -follow and it detects a change while scanning it dies and the rest of my program continues on. Thus leaving me with only a partial directory scan. I'm trying to work in File::Find, but any other suggestions?

In reply to Re^4: Manage Directory Structure by boardryder
in thread Manage Directory Structure by boardryder

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