Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Dear Monks, I want to exclude the one sub directory using File::Find
If I am not able to skip that sub directory, I can not come out from that sub directory.
Because system automatically generates each time new files in to that sub directory
So I need to skip the sub directory.
thank you
jhon
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Re: File::Find should not go in to the spcified directories
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 30, 2009 at 13:11 UTC
    You can use the prune feature to skip a subtree. 
    find(sub {
   if (...[ is dir to skip ]...) {
      $File::Find::prune = 1;
      return;
   }

   ...
}, $dir);

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