sub find_all_textfiles { my ($dir) = @_; my $fh = new IO::File; opendir($fh, $dir) or die "Failed to read dir '$dir' ($!)\n"; my @files = readdir($fh); closedir $fh; my @found = ( ); foreach my $fname (@files) { next if $fname eq '.' or $fname eq '..'; my $path = "$dir/$fname"; if (-f $path and $path =~ /[.]txt$/) { push @found, $path; } elsif (-d $path) { push @found, find_all_textfiles($path); } } return @found; }