in reply to Directory Crawling

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"; }