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File::Find and the like will help.

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Re: Re: Simple Multiple Folder Search Question
by dkaplowitz (Novice) on Mar 22, 2004 at 15:26 UTC
    Although it might be more elegant to do a find on the folders, for my purposes I'd actually just like to hard code the folders into the script (at present there are only 4 separate folders to scan), and just use the basic functionality of this script as it stands. I thought that adding more chdir 'C:/devl/bin/timedir' or die "Arghh!!! $!"; statements with the paths of each folder within it would do it, but I realized I was just chdir'ing into those directories and wasn't doing anything inside any of them (except of course for the last one in the list). Maybe I should create some kind of loop that will just do a single folder at a time, but I'm not sure my skill level will allow me to pull that off. Anyway, if I missed something about File::Find that I should know about, please give me a hint. Thanks, Dave

      What about doing:

      foreach my $dir ( @directories ) { chdir $dir; opendir( ... # your code goes here. }

      Sören