Re: Re: Re: Simple Multiple Folder Search Question

Another problem I've run into is how to differentiate between folders and files when scanning these folders. I noticed that when I started testing this script it would count the sub-folders in its listing of things older than 5 minutes. I'd like to ignore folders completely.
Is there some kind of regexp I can use in this

next if $File=~/^\./;
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that would specify a folder to ignore? I'm looking all over for an answer to this and not getting anywhere. Thanks for any help.

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Simple Multiple Folder Search Question by matija (Priest) on Mar 22, 2004 at 21:16 UTC
Regexp is not the right test for directory. Directories can have any name. You should use filetests: `-f $file` will return true if $file is a regular file. `-d $file` will return true if $file is a directory.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Re: Simple Multiple Folder Search Question by dkaplowitz (Novice) on Mar 22, 2004 at 21:25 UTC
Thanks again matija, I seem to have had success using: `next if (-d $File);` I don't think I'll ever learn how to program. This stuff just seems to perpetually elude me.	[reply] [d/l]