Re: Finding files excluding some

[ELISHEVA]

You may prefer File::Finder which is a wrapper around File::Find that mimics the options for the find command.

If you choose to work directly with File::Find, keep in mind that nearly everything you would normally do on the command line with find you do inside of the visitor function ($wanted in the File::Find documentation). So if you want to exclude things by extension you would do something like this (pseudo code):

sub doForEachFile {
   if ($File::Find::name !~ /\.[oa]$/) {
      #we have what we want...do what ever;
   }
}

Best, beth

[Nkuvu]

Very minor syntax preference: If I'm looking to exclude files, I generally return from the 'wanted' function, which just reduces the level of indentation in the subroutine. For example:


sub doForEachFile {
   return if $File::Find::name =~ /\.[oa]$/;
      
   #we have what we want...do what ever;
}

Does the same thing as your code, just organized a bit differently.