oryann9> No, but good point. My intent was to determine when -prune was set on oryann9> the CLI what the De-parsed code told me, 1==true, 0==false because oryann9> when I run this code below prune = 0 is not working, its descending oryann9> down "/".
You're misusing it. Set it within the wanted() routine when you're looking at a directory that you don't want to descend. It'll be cleared to 0 before calling wanted(), so setting it before calling find() is completely useless. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. - __OUTPUT__ main::(find_hog:47): if ( $fs eq "/" ) { # only if the root directory DB<1> print $fs / DB<2> n main::(find_hog:48): find_me ( $fs, 0 ); DB<2> n print caller find_me main::(find_hog:61): my ( @sorted_large_files, @large_files ) ; DB<2> main::(find_hog:80): if (@sorted_large_files) { DB<2> print caller find_me invalid top directory at /opt/perl/lib/5.8.2/File/Find.pm line 568, <> line 1. DB<3> print $fs / DB<4> n main::(find_hog:81): my %meta ; DB<4> n main::(find_hog:82): for my $file (@sorted_large_files) { DB<4> n main::(find_hog:83): $meta{$file} = { main::(find_hog:84): 'uid' => (stat($file))[4], main::(find_hog:85): 'gid' => (stat($file))[5], main::(find_hog:86): 'sz' => (stat($file))[7], main::(find_hog:87): 'mod' => (stat($file))[9], DB<4> print $file /data/data01/recovery/archives/dubhdv04/2007-11-15,11:21 DB<5> /data/... should not be appearing if prune set to false, or 0. __CODE__ Is this what you mean on line 9? I tried and it does not seem to work, meaning it still descending. 1 sub find_me { 2 use Data::Dumper; 3 my $fs = shift; 4 #local $File::Find::prune = shift; ##-- localize prune to just this block --## 5 #my @directory = ($fs) ; 6 use constant MAX_SIZE => (25*1024*1024) ; 7 use constant DIVISOR => (1024) ; 8 my ( $wanted, $list ) = find_by_min_size ( MAX_SIZE ) ; 9 File::Find::find ( { wanted => $wanted, prune => $File::Find::prune = shift}, $fs ) ; 10 @large_files = $list->() ; 11 12 @sorted_large_files = 13 sort { -s $b <=> -s $a } 14 @large_files ; 15 16 } ##-- End sub --## ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/