Re: Compare Directories and List Changed or Missing Files

[Hofmator]

Some suggestions:

• You can use different delimiters in s///, so

  $sourceDir =~ s/\/\$/\$/;
  
  # is better written as
  $sourceDir =~ s#/\$#$#;
  

  btw, what is that supposed to do? It replaces a '/$' with a '$' sign, I see no obvious use for that ...
• Instead of comparing files with a call to the external command diff - use File::Compare - it's portable and doesn't spawn an external process.

-- Hofmator

[sierrathedog04]

Thanks for the suggestions about an alternate delimiter and using File::Compare.

The regex ought to have been:

$sourceDir =~ s#/$##;

which would have removed a trailing forward slash at the end of a directory name. What I actually wrote was, as you mention, pointless.