Questions tagged [file-find]
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Is it posible to use wild card to get list of directory in File::Find perl module?
I want to list the directory path which contains the required directory.
For example:
/usr1
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veerabhadra
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Find:File in Perl - Search through symlink directory
Does anyone know how to make File:Find can search through symlink directory?
I have a real directory at
/home/alex/mydir1
and a symlink directory inside
/home/alex/mydir1/test -> ../mydir2
Here is my code:
#!/depot/perl-5.8.3/bin/perl
use…

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Why did File::Find finish short of completely traversing a large directory?
A directory exists with a total of 2,153,425 items (according to Windows folder Properties). It contains .jpg and .gif image files located within a few subdirectories. The task was to move the images into a different location while querying each…

Stan
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How to find files in Perl that match prompted input without using -e and -d... File::Find only way?
Good afternoon, stackoverflow friends!
I have been given the following assignment and would like to learn how to see if a file or directory exists.
"Prompt the user to type in one parameter (note that this script only takes in one parameter and…

MrStutterZ
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Perl's File::Find::Rule Amount/Quantity-Rule?
When I have a folder with about 5000 images and I use the following code:
my $path= "./foo/images"
my @files = File::Find::Rule->file()->name('*.jpg')->in($path);
I should get 5000 Images in my Array.
But are there equivalents with perl or a shell…

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Optimize searching the difference between two directories recursively in perl
I am trying to find the difference between two directories in Perl. I want to optimize it to run efficiently and also not sure how to ignore certain files (say with extension .txt or .o)
The code I have so far is:
use strict;
use warnings;
use…

iDev
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Need some help in program logic
I am trying to read a config file and discard the directories that are listed in there with size mentioned in the file. So far I have this-
open FILE, 'C:\reports\config.txt' or die $!;
my $size_req;
my $path;
my $sub_dir;
my $count;
my @lines…

user1475877
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Select modified files using AWK
I am working on a task for which AWK is the designated tool.
The task is to list files that are:
modified today (same day the script is run)
of size 1 MB or less (size <= 1048576 bytes)
User's input is to instruct where to start search.
Search for…

henrix
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Find files with certain file extensions c++
I can find .jpg files
But how can I find .jpg, .bmp, .png .... files?
Mask
LPWSTR mask = stoL(path + "*.(jpg)");
Handler initialization
HANDLE hf = FindFirstFile(mask, &FindFileData);
String to LPWSTR
LPWSTR stoL(string s) {
return…

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Modify Perl search in file to include only specified directories
I found the code sample below here. It searches for text in files, recursing through sub-directories, but I want to specify a subset of the first level of sub-directories to recurse through.
E.g. suppose I'm in directory C:\ which contains…

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perl list path of subdirectory using File::Find
How can I get all the paths of a subdirectory foo into an array in perl using File::Find
abc\def\sdfg\gthrth\foo\
abc\def\fgfdg\foo\
abc\def\sdfgdsg\fgdfg\gfdgf\tytty\foo\
abc\def\foo\
I want to get the full paths of all subdirectories foo…

Jill448
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