I'm searching for the parent directory containing a specific file type using File::Find. I then want to ls -l on that directory and redirect the output to APPEND into a named file somewhere.

The problem... I could create a string with the command for each directory (and that does the redirect), but... Some of the parent directory names contain shell meta chars (sometimes).

So if I read the system help correctly, I must use the args as an array to prevent shell meta char interpretation. Well that works. But now my redirect is broken. Now ls complains it can't find a file called '>>'

What do I do to fix this ? 

#
use File::Find;
#

find(\&get_this,".");

#
sub get_this {

if( -d $_ ) {
    opendir(DIZ,$_);
    DIREL:
    while( $del = readdir(DIZ) ) {

    if( $del =~ m/\.xxx$/ )  { 
        print "$File::Find::name\n" ;
        $File::Find::prune = 1;

        system("echo \"-----------------------------------------------
+--\" >> \"/Volumes/Expansion\ Drive/stuffTGZ/list_xxx_dirs.txt\"");
        system("echo \"- $File::Find::name ---------------------------
+--\" >> \"/Volumes/Expansion\ Drive/stuffTGZ/list_xxx_dirs.txt\"");
        my @syscmd = ("/bin/ls","-l","$File::Find::name",">>","/Volume
+s/Expansion\ Drive/stuffTGZ/list_xxx_dirs.txt") ;
        system(@syscmd);

        last DIREL;
    }

    }
    
    closedir(DIZ);
}

}

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BTW, does it make any difference bieng on iMac OSX ? thanks

In reply to Another system redirect problem by trendle

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