Re: How would you go about it?

[Zaxo]

That looks pretty good as it is. The File::Find usage looks fine.

I think your @ARGV handling is unnecessary. You have already arranged for command line options to set the default modes. Those options are removed from @ARGV when Getopt::Long parses them. You could arrange for @ARGV to be a list of directories to apply to if you wished.

Kudos for including a usage function. You may be interested in Pod::Usage. It automatically extracts usage functions from the pod - which I recommend you add to your script. You can then read the pod with perldoc myscript and you can easily extract a man.1 page from your literate perl on installation.

Good work, I wouldn't guess you'd been using perl such a short time.

[pcassell]

My @ARGV handling is in case you want to include multiple directories/files on the command line, and I didnt want my script to end nastily if you mistyped a directory or file.

Thanks for the info on Pod::Usage, I will be checking that out!