Re: Traverse a directory

This works for me (using find in linux):

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

my $dirname = "your_directory";
my $user = "your_user"; 

my @fn = map {split /\n/} `find $dirname -user $user`;
foreach my $f (@fn){
    print "$f\n";
}
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Re^2: Traverse a directory by Anonymous Monk on Sep 05, 2012 at 14:34 UTC
Apart from forking to an external process being of questionable use, your code will fail if `$dirname` contains a space, or a file name contains a line break; also, you cannot iterate over the list until you get it in full (could take a few minutes). Anyway, I'm saying that using modules is usually more robust and flexible and portable than shelling out to some command.	[reply] [d/l]