Re^2: Permission denied Found to be Obsolete

All correct and I have added the the comment "below is the orginal line 13" However I now have the answer.

And its in the checking of the directory. It should read

if($file ne '.' and $file ne '..' and ! (-d $dir.$file)){
##code
}
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A trap I should have seen I admitt but sometimes putting on here clears ones head.

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Re^3: Permission denied Found to be Obsolete by jdporter (Paladin) on Sep 26, 2006 at 14:30 UTC
`!(-d $name)` [download] should be `-f $name` [download] After all, there's plenty of things a directory entry can be besides a plain file and a directory. You should probably also consider whether the name test shouldn't instead be `$file !~ /^\./` [download] because, theoretically, any file whose name begins with dot is supposed to be "hidden". Of course, you may in fact want to search the hidden files as well; I don't know. We're building the house of the future together.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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!(-d $name)
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-f $name
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After all, there's plenty of things a directory entry can be besides a plain file and a directory.

You should probably also consider whether the name test shouldn't instead be

 $file !~ /^\./
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We're building the house of the future together.