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File::Find ?

You also might like the program find2perl that comes with that module.

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Re^2: shell to perl question
by inman (Curate) on Aug 18, 2005 at 07:51 UTC
    An example 
    use File::Find;

find (\&wanted, @ARGV);

sub wanted {
    return unless /\.jpe?g$/i;
    print "Found $_\n";
}

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      You probably want 

          print "Found $File::Find::name\n";

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      there, otherwise only the basename gets printed out.

      the lowliest monk

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