This is the sort of thing I usually use for such purposes. Note this is recursive and therefore will search subdirectories also. :-)
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# Recurse directories to find .txt files
use strict;
use File::Find;
my $file = '';
my $dir = '';
@ARGV = qw(.) unless @ARGV; # current dir unless otherwise specified
$dir = shift @ARGV;
sub process_file {
return unless -f; #skip directories
$file = $_;
if ($file =~ m/\.(txt)/si) {
# do stuff here
}
}
find(\&process_file, $dir);
HTH,
Update: Deleted a spurious line from the code. The original is from an example on recursive editing, and I stripped some (but not all) of the non-relevant code. Oops. ;-)
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