Preserved Topic: What, you think files grow on Directory Trees? (Page 1 of 1)

ok, I've got a bunch of file strewn across a directory and several subdirectories and I want to use Perl (not CGI- offline stuff) to locate each file and run some regexp's on the contents of each file.

...But I'm getting ahead of myself...

the main issue being the 'How do I locate every file in the file tree?'


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Just did this actually

The module you want to use is

File::Find
for a recursive File Find down a directory tree.

basic usage:

#!/path/to/perl -w



ues File::Find;

@DIRLIST = qw(/path/to/root/directory /any/other/paths);



sub do_somthing {

 #What ever you want to do to each file here. I'll leave it up to you

}



find(\&do_something, @DIRLIST);

.:[ Never resist a perfect moment ]:.

[This message has been edited by bitdamaged (edited 07-16-2002).]

[This message has been edited by Petskull (edited 07-16-2002).]

Ha! look what I did... now to do something useful..

use File::Find;
@DIRLIST = qw(C:\thedir C:\thedir\thesub1 C:\thedir\thesub2);
sub do_something {
print "$File::Find::name \n";
}

find(\&do_something, @DIRLIST);



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This is what I just did. I needed to wrap up a large chunk of a website and redo all the paths to one's relative to a new server

#!/usr/bin/perl -w



use File::Find;



@DIRLIST = qw(/my/path/to/files);

sub process_file {



#  I'll need this later becasue in the loop the magic $_ variable will change

	$old = $_;

#  Just to files not directories                

	unless (-d $old) {

#  A name for the temp file we will write to 

		$new = "$_~";

#  Open the orginal file for reading

		open(OLD, "< $old") or die "can't open $old: $!\n";

#  Open the new one for writng

		open(NEW, "> $new") or die "can't open $new: $!\n";

#  Go through the file and run our regexp

		while (<OLD> ) {

			$_ =~ s#old/path/to/change?#new/pat/to/use#ig;

#   Write to the new file

			print NEW $_;

		}

#  Close the file handles

		close(OLD) or die "can't close $old: $!\n";

		close(NEW) or die " can't close $new: $!\n";

#  Rename the new file to the old one (this will overwrite the old file);

		rename($new, $old) or die "can't rename $new to $old: $!";

	

	}

}

find(\&process_file, @DIRLIST);

.:[ Never resist a perfect moment ]:.

[This message has been edited by bitdamaged (edited 07-17-2002).]

omg bit... comments?... you should DIE now! hehehe ;-)

Rahly

Oh I commented it for Petskull

I'm probably one of the worst when it comes to commenting all my code like that. especially a one off script like this.



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