Update: File::Find even with the prune option seems to take way more time than this piece of code. I say "seems", b/c I canned the file::find version once it ran over the time of this code's benchmark.

Thanks (++) for all the help!

# Finds all of the thingtolookfor.txt across all servers and prints ou
+t a list 
# of those people that do not have them to log.txt

use strict;
use Benchmark;
my $t0 = new Benchmark;
my ($server,$usershare);
my $out='//mymachine/myshare/log.txt';
my @servers=('XXY','ZZZ','ETC');

open OUT,">$out";

foreach $server (@servers){
    my $dir1="//$server/c\$/chompy";
    # Check if chompy share is on $C or D$
    if (!(-e "$dir1")){#if directory doesn't exist try d$
        $dir1="//$server/d\$/chompy";
        if (!(-e "$dir1")){
            die "Directory not does not exist on $server\n...Exiting S
+cript.\n";
        }
    }

    # Read the user shares 
    opendir(DIR, $dir1) or die "can't opendir $dir1: $!";
    #weed out dots and get only dirs
    my @dirs = grep { !/^\./ && -d "$dir1/$_" } readdir(DIR); 
    closedir DIR;

    foreach $usershare(@dirs){
        my $userdir="$dir1/$usershare";
        if (!-e "$userdir/thingtolookfor.txt"){
            print OUT "$userdir:\tno\n";
            print "$userdir:\tno\n";
        }
    }
}
close OUT;

#benchmarking info
my $t1 = new Benchmark;
my $td = timediff($t1, $t0);

print OUT "The code took:",timestr($td),"\n";

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