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in thread Recursive directory scanning
This is true, and that would break the script :(
Remember that $item has been prefixed by the directory, so we want to filter out elements like foo/bar/. and fi/fo/fum/..
Better would be to extract the file name and compare it to current/parent directory in a portable fashion. this will work on *nix or windows. I have no idea what it might do on a MAC or on VMS.
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