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Actually, I missed that in the File::Find example. In fact either the Perl test (and some others) is invalid or the shell test (and some others) is.
The shell script compiles recursively, and the Perl has a check to avoid compiling recursively. One of them violates the goal of the script

As far as the exit stuff goes, I realized that it could be written better as:
exit !-e "/etc/mtab"

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I emailed the author with the exit changes (and reiterated your File::Find findings). Hopefully he will resolve them.


-pete
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Re^4: Perl losing, unfairly
by demerphq (Chancellor) on Jun 16, 2004 at 13:01 UTC

    As far as the exit stuff goes, I realized that it could be written better as:

    Except that will exit regardless, which I dont think is the objective. I prefer 

    -e "/etc/mtab" or die;

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    :-)


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      That's kind of the bigger problem, the author doesn't list the objectives very clearly.

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      The assumption that I got from reading the rest of the examples is that the intention is to always exit. Some of the other scripts use that approach.


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