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Joost:

and another "thank you" goes up, irritating those who regard such as space wasters.

so I guess I'll also have to seek one additional clarification: in line 11, re file::find, you write: 

find \&process_file, "/some/directory";

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As I understand this (and I think much more clearly, thank you!) I really need to specify all the subdirs, perhaps by stuffing them into an array and feeding each element to the sub?

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Re^5: Tutorial on File::Find even more basic than "Beginners Guide"
by Joost (Canon) on Jan 20, 2005 at 23:39 UTC
    You do not have to specify the subdirs of "/some/directory" - File::Find will walk through all the files and subdirs of "/some/directory" recursively. You may want to specify more directories if you want to call the same routine on a number of different directory trees: 

    find \&process_file, "/cdrom", "/floppy";

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    Will call process_file for each dir and file on the cdrom or floppy drive (well, it will on my machine, but the location of those drives in your filesystem might be different)

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