Minimal Perl

Chapter 6. Perl as a (better) find command

6.1	Introducing hybrid find/perl programs	180
6.2	File testing capabilities of find vs. Perl	180
6.3	Finding files	184
6.4	Processing filename arguments	188
6.5	Using find | xargs vs. Perl alternatives	192
6.6	find as an argument pre-processor for Perl	197
6.7	A Unix-like, OS-portable find command	198
6.8	Summary	200

Scene: Church basement, Seattle, USA. Raining—as usual.

A burly, unshaven, heavily tattooed man is tugging at the sleeve of a woman, who is standing at a podium. She responds to the sleeve-tugger with annoyance.

“Yes Lefty, I know you’re upset that they’re not serving the tea biscuits on those lovely lace doilies anymore, but given our cash-flow situation—sorry, we’ll have to discuss this later.

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