Finding directories or files

[user2base]

How to implement a script that returns all the files and directories (including the path) which name contains "$txt" from "$srcdir" ??
I am close to it using the File::Find module but not quite...

Thanks for your help.

 

[raider2001]

Why don't you share what you have so far?

 

[user2base]

ok.
So far I am using:

find sub { print "$File::Find::name\n" if -e "$txt"}, "$src";

but the output is not what I expect as it returns all the directories that are contained in the same parent directory that the one I search for...

 

[justice41]

Try using a regex match instead. This will print any file or directory that contains the text in the $txt variable. You will have to modify it some if you want to match exactly.

find sub { print "$File::Find::name\n" if /$txt/ }, "$src";

jaa

 

[goBoating]

or, on a Unix or Linux box,

@files = `find $srcdir -name "*$txt*" -print`;

'hope this helps

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