Re: Traverse a directory

[asqwerty]

in reply to Traverse a directory

This works for me (using find in linux):

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

my $dirname = "your_directory";
my $user = "your_user"; 

my @fn = map {split /\n/} `find $dirname -user $user`;
foreach my $f (@fn){
    print "$f\n";
}

[Anonymous Monk]

Apart from forking to an external process being of questionable use, your code will fail if $dirname contains a space, or a file name contains a line break; also, you cannot iterate over the list until you get it in full (could take a few minutes).

Anyway, I'm saying that using modules is usually more robust and flexible and portable than shelling out to some command.