2002/07/14/path/content

##</code><code>##

use strict;
use File::Find;
use File::Spec;

my $search = File::Spec->canonpath("/".shift());
1 while $search =~ s!/[^/]+/\.\./?!/!;
$search =~ s!^/!!;

find({
 wanted => \&wanted,
 preprocess => \&preprocess,   # this should do it
 follow => 1,
}, ".");

sub wanted {
 return unless -d;
 print "testing $File::Find::name\n";    # see these fine
 if (glob("$_/${search}.*")) {
  print "$File::Find::name/$search\n";
  exit;
 }
}

sub preprocess {
 print "pre-processing @_\n";    # never see this
 return sort { $b <=> $a } grep { /^\d+$/ } @_;
}

##</code><code>##

[fastolfe@home test]$ ./resolve-name /path/content
testing .
testing ./2001
testing ./2001/05
testing ./2001/05/30
./2001/05/30/path/content