I was just reading Beginners guide to File::Find in the Monastary Tutorials (and the pod documentation for File::Find) and was testing some of the examples.

The code is simple and is as follows:

#!/user/bin/perl

use File::Find;

find(\&print_name, ".");


exit(0);


sub print_name{
        print "[$File::Find::dir] [$File::Find::name]\n"
        unless(($_ eq ".") or ($_ eq ".."))
               }

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The output is:

[.] 
[.] [./DAYS2MDH.M]
[.] [./INVJDAY.M]
[.] [./JDAY.M]
[.] [./mdy2doy.m]
[.] [./MyBigTest.pl]
[.] [./MyBigTest.vpd]
[.] [./MyLearn04.pl]

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According to the Tutorial and the comments, this should work on a Win32 system (which is what I was testing this on). But rather than giving me the 'full path', it gives me '.'.

I seem to recall that on Win32 systems there can be problems with getting full path names; but the Tutorial says otherwise.

How does one get the 'full path' name rather than the '.'? Or just point me in the right direction to address this issue since I can't remember where I saw/read the caveats about path names re: Win32 system?

UPDATE: Thanks everyone. I went with the full directory approach in the find() and it works just fine. In scouting around CPAN I also found File::Find::Wanted which is a real nice, simple wrapper around File::Find and is a bit more intuitive than File::Find. Though it's not clear how one gets to the variables $File::Find::name, $File::Find::dir...which are really nifty in the File::Find module.

ack Albuquerque, NM

In reply to How to Get Full Path Name on Win32 System by ack

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