in reply to Skipping directories using File::Find

Hi,
a short find2perl . -type f spits out the following:
sub wanted { my ($dev,$ino,$mode,$nlink,$uid,$gid); (($dev,$ino,$mode,$nlink,$uid,$gid) = lstat($_)) && -f _ && print("$name\n"); }

Regards,
svenXY

Update: Thoroughly reading the OP after I was downvoted (sorry!), I found that the OP only wants to skip certain directories.
What I initially wanted to point out is that using the find2perl utility that comes with find2perl spits out nice perl code and can be used to check if the find sub would actually deliver the correct items..
A correct find2perl line for your problem would then be
find2perl . -type d -name "1*" -prune -o -type f -print , which would spit out:

... sub wanted { my ($dev,$ino,$mode,$nlink,$uid,$gid); (($dev,$ino,$mode,$nlink,$uid,$gid) = lstat($_)) && -d _ && /^1.*\z/s && ($File::Find::prune = 1) || -f _ && print("$name\n"); }

I just wanted to point out how useful this find2perl can be especially the first couple of times.