Directory Crawling

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Re: Directory Crawling by jethro (Monsignor) on Dec 30, 2009 at 20:49 UTC
That's a job for File::Find	[reply]
Re^2: Directory Crawling by JKasting (Novice) on Dec 30, 2009 at 20:53 UTC
I've been looking at that, but am unsure on how to utilize it. I'm wanting to rename files located in many different paths. How can I use File::Find to get to all of them?	[reply]
Re^3: Directory Crawling by JadeNB (Chaplain) on Dec 30, 2009 at 21:22 UTC
Perhaps Beginners guide to File::Find will help? (Also, it's a little unclear what “many different paths” means—do you want to handle some, but not all, subdirectories of a master directory?)	[reply]
Re^4: Directory Crawling by JKasting (Novice) on Dec 31, 2009 at 01:07 UTC
Re: Directory Crawling by toolic (Bishop) on Dec 30, 2009 at 21:24 UTC
The following from the Categorized Questions and Answers -> QandASection: directories section may give you some specific ideas: How to rename to lowercase every file in a directory and its subdirectories?	[reply]
Re: Directory Crawling by stefbv (Priest) on Dec 31, 2009 at 06:28 UTC
Or you can use File::Find::Rule, an "Alternative interface to File::Find". `use strict; use warnings; use File::Find::Rule; my $pattern = '*.rdf'; my $path = '.'; my @results = File::Find::Rule ->name( $pattern ) ->file ->nonempty ->in( $path ); foreach my $file (@results) { print "$file\n"; }` [download]	[reply] [d/l]