Please check the link above before voting me --. This was done tongue-in-cheek and partially in response to a lot of near-flaming Chatterbox discussion. Actually, I think this entire thing might have blown over much earlier if it weren't for a certain May 17 Initiate who kept fanning the flames.

And for those who are sick of Godwin's law, please check out Seebach's law.

Looks like you lose ;-)

This is what peer review is about. t0mas posted code. I reviewed it. Sure, there's more than one way to do it, but this wasn't one of them.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

Actually, no. I'd rather you be the kind of saint we all know you really are. As I said, you know more than I do; probably more than anyone here does. That doesn't mean +7 font tags are the right way to go. I'd rather you say that recursion the way t0mas did it causes problems with symlinks, and as a result you'd suggest using some other method. t0mas' method does work, though, right? If I were going to use it in some situation (entirely hypothetical) where symlinks weren't an issue, I might prefer to do it that way for some reason - and in that case, I'd rather have your suggestion on how to do it better. That's all I'm saying.

- Ozymandias

View source. It was +4, not +7. (I've since edited it to +1.) And the problem with such solutions (that use explicit recursion instead of File::Find) is that they are non-portable, are often harder to get right, and create a "bad meme" virus. These must be contained and innoculated, lest they inflict pain upon the innocent.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker