Re: Useful addition to Perl?

This may not always work for large number of files or huge directory trees, but I often use something like

perl -ne 'print if _____' `find .`
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Or if you have a specific directory in mind

perl -ne 'print if _____' `find mydirectory`
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Re: Re: Useful addition to Perl? by tsee (Curate) on Mar 05, 2004 at 11:10 UTC
Unfortunately, that's not portable.	[reply]
Re^3: Useful addition to Perl? by particle (Vicar) on Mar 08, 2004 at 18:43 UTC
it's more portable than you think; see perl power tools ~Particle accelerates	[reply]

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