I used this code. and got the error Substitution replacement not terminated at filefind_pm1.pl line 16. I changed the code to

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w # force taint checks, and print warnings
use strict;
use File::Find;

my $Start_dir = shift;

die ">$Start_dir< is not a directory\n" if ! -d $Start_dir;

find(\&process, $Start_dir);

sub process {
    return if -d $File::Find::name;
    return if -f $File::Find::name; # This is success - the file exist
    print ">$File::Find::name< is not a file or was not found\n";
}
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this gave the error for every file in the directory.

>testdir/nitcnitc Folder/nitcnitc/0wireless.html< is not a file or was not found

It looks like the -f and the -d flags are not working.

I'm using osx I maybe i should be using mac:perl. I thought this was just for people using classic but it looks like im wrong.

Acually running returns the expected results

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w # force taint checks, and print warnings
use strict;
use File::Find;

my $Start_dir = shift;

die ">$Start_dir< is not a directory\n" if ! -d $Start_dir;

find(\&process, $Start_dir);

sub process {
    return if -e  $Start_dir
     # return if -f $File::Find::name; # This is success - the file ex
+ist
     # return if -e  $File::Find::name;
    print ">$File::Find::name  < is not a file or was not found\n";
}
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It looks like $File::Find::name cannot be used as a value for a file test.

If i save the strings returned from £file::find::name, to an array then work through the array then filetests seem to work. Why is this

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w # force taint checks, and print warnings
use strict;
use File::Find;

my $Start_dir = shift;
my @found =();

die ">$Start_dir< is not a directory\n" if ! -d $Start_dir;

find(\&process, $Start_dir);

sub process {
push(@found, $File::Find::name) 

}

foreach (@found){
if  (-d $_ ) { print  "This is success - the directory  $_ exist\n"};
if ( -f $_) {   print  "This is success - the file   $_  exist\n"};

}
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