I have read the relevent docs but am really unsure what to but in the wanted subroutine in order to find the files I want. The files I want to get are new/something_here/mlc

use File::Find;

my $dir = ('new/');
find (\&wanted, $dir);

# this bascially lists all the directories, how can I get it to look f
+or my 'mlc' files?

sub wanted      {
                print $File::Find::dir;

}
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In the documentation I find this snippet:

The wanted() function does whatever verifications you
want.  $File::Find::dir contains the current directory
name, and $_ the current filename within that directory.
$File::Find::name contains the complete pathname to the
file. 

So I'd try this to start (untested):

my @mlc;
sub wanted {
    return unless $_ eq 'mlc';
    push @mlc, $File::Find::name;
}
find(\&wanted, '.');
foreach my $file (@mlc) {
    open(my $fh, $file) or die "Can't open '$file': $!";
    # per-file code goes here
}
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