in reply to RE: Re: Its not supposed to!
in thread Its not supposed to!

I understand. No problem with writing your own code.

Although File::Find (not Find::File) is actually in the core distribution, so you wouldn't have to go to CPAN to get it.

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RE: RE: RE: Re: Its not supposed to!
by BBQ (Curate) on Apr 18, 2000 at 23:30 UTC
    No wonder it didn't load! :o)

    But being strictly picky (for this size of operation at least), isn't it cheaper (disk/cpu wise) to do my own small recursion?
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      But being strictly picky (for this size of operation at least), isn't it cheaper (disk/cpu wise) to do my own small recursion?
      Uh, File::Find is a particularly well-written piece of code, and has optimizations to ensure that it do unnecessary stat'ing (an optimization that made File::Find actually beat /usr/bin/find on Sunos 4.1.3 on an NFS-mounted directory.

      Also, File::Find means your program won't chase symlinks incorrectly (did you think of those?) and your program will be portable to non-Unix platforms trivially.

      So, don't reinvent your own directory recursing code. Use File::Find.

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