Fellow Monks, i am in need of your guidance.
I am not sure how i want to go about this. I want to write a script that will look at a directory on one machine and use that as a template to compare files on another. (size, mod time, permissions)
I've created a script..pretty much from examples of the modules for individual files:
use Win32::FileSecurity;
use File::stat qw(:FIELDS);
print "enter in a file to get info on: ";
chomp($InFile = <STDIN>);

if (Win32::FileSecurity::Get($InFile, \%Perms)) {
    print "Permissions for $InFile:\n";
    foreach $Account (sort( keys( %Perms)))
    {
        print "\t$Account:\n";
        if (Win32::FileSecurity::EnumerateRights( $Perms{$Account}, \@
+List))
        {
            map {print "\t$_\n";} (@List);
            } else {
                print "\t\tNone\n";
                }
            }
        } else { 
            print "Error accessing permissions for $InFile:\n";
            print "Win32::FormatMessage( Win32::GetLastError() )";
            }
    $stat = stat($InFile) or die "No File :$!";
    if ($st_size  & $st_mtime) {
        
        print "\n" . $st_size;
        print "\n" . $st_mtime;
        }

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Should i use "readdir" to create an array of files and check each one individually on each machine? Or maybe a hash of files with their size, modtime and permissions? Eitherway, i'm not too sure how to really get this done. Can anyone please help. Your advice would be much appreciated.
your fellow monk
Ray

In reply to comparing the same directory on two different machines Win32 by RayRay459

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