If you're starting out with File::Find, then the best advice I can give you is... don't. It is old and bletcherous and there's no need to use it for new work.

Much nicer is File::Find::Rule, which will cut off the depth search in a much more declarative manner, letting you get on with your job and not having to write so much make-work code to tweak File::Find to do your bidding.

my @files = File::Find::Rule->new
    ->maxdepth(2)
    ->file()
    ->in('/path/to/stuff');
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