I am sure that when you re-read the code which you have presented here you will realise at once that it is not an SSCCE. That is a shame for you because the problem (if indeed there actually is one) is in the code which you have chosen not to show us.

Here is the sort of thing which you should have provided. Note that this demonstrates that the syntax in the 2 lines which you have shown works perfectly well.

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

use File::Find;
use Path::Tiny;

# Construct the tree
my $dir = path('quux');
my $file = $dir->child('baz')->touchpath;
link $file, $dir->child($_) for qw/foo bar/;

# Run the iterator
find ({wanted => sub { print "found $_\n" }, follow => 1}, $dir);

# Clean up
$dir->remove_tree;
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From Perl Doc - File::Find:
follow_skip
follow_skip==1, which is the default, causes all files which are neither directories nor symbolic links to be ignored if they are about to be processed a second time. If a directory or a symbolic link are about to be processed a second time, File::Find dies.

follow_skip==2 causes File::Find to ignore any duplicate files and directories but to proceed normally otherwise.

So, this looks worth a try:

find({wanted => \&search_tcl_files, follow => 1, follow_skip=>2},$dire
+ctory);
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Hi Marshall, it seems your suggestion works well! thanks, Yaron.