PERL Beginners - Find Error Message

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Find Error Message

andrewmchorney@cox.net

2005-11-21, 6:57 pm

Hello

I am working on a perl script and the 1st step is to get a list of all the files on the C drive. I am getting an error message - Can't stat c:*.*: No such file or directory

Here is my perl script:

use strict;
use warnings;
use File::Find;

$| = 1; #Autoflush STDOUT

#finddepth comes from File::Find
#finddepth searches from the bottom of the tree up

#finddepth(\&BadNames,"c:\\Directory");
find(\&BadNames,"c:\\*.*");

sub BadNames
{
print $_;
print "\n";
}

What should the find statement look like?

Timothy Johnson

2005-11-21, 6:57 pm

I think it will work if you just leave out the *.* it will work.

-----Original Message-----
From: andrewmchorney@cox.net [mailto:andrewmchorney@cox.net]=20
Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 12:14 PM
To: beginners@perl.org
Subject: Find Error Message

Hello

I am working on a perl script and the 1st step is to get a list of all
the files on the C drive. I am getting an error message - Can't stat
c:*.*: No such file or directory

Here is my perl script:

use strict;
use warnings;
use File::Find;

$| =3D 1; #Autoflush STDOUT

#finddepth comes from File::Find
#finddepth searches from the bottom of the tree up

#finddepth(\&BadNames,"c:\\Directory");
find(\&BadNames,"c:\\*.*");

sub BadNames
{
print $_;
print "\n";
}

What should the find statement look like?
=20

usenet@DavidFilmer.com

2005-11-21, 6:57 pm

andrewmchorney@cox.net wrote:
> use File::Find;

I would recommend"

use IO::All;
print "$_\n" for io("/tmp/mp3") -> all_files(0);

Easy!!!! (everything is easy with IO::All - the Swiss Army Knife of
I/O)

Bob Showalter

2005-11-21, 6:57 pm

andrewmchorney@cox.net wrote:
> I am getting an error message - Can't stat c:*.*: No such file or directory
>
> find(\&BadNames,"c:\\*.*");
>
> What should the find statement look like?

The argument should be a directory name (or multiple directories), not a
glob pattern. So use "C:\\", or "c:/"

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