in reply to Why is preprocess a no-op when follow is true for File::Find?

I have found numerous pages that point to the documentation for File::Find and state that preprocess and follow are essentially not compatible.

Where?

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Re^2: Why is preprocess a no-op when follow is true for File::Find?
by markhh (Novice) on Dec 03, 2010 at 13:37 UTC
    Directly from the pod as seen at http://perldoc.perl.org/File/Find.html:

    When follow or follow_fast are in effect, preprocess is a no-op.