On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 04:05:20PM +0000, Ben Coffman wrote:
> Conseqently in each folder if it does not find an RCS or OLD-SCCS directory 
> it creates these folders in which the "find" goes into and then it creates 
> the folders again, thus causing a never ending recursive loop.

Ah, I see.

> My question being, is there an easy way to traverse down a directory in 
> perl, or do I need to create this script from scratch?

Use File::Find.  See the perldoc page for it.  See also find2perl(1),
which will take command-line arguments in the same style as find(1) and
give you the File::Find syntax for it.

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