NAME

File::Find::Rule - Alternative interface to File::Find

SYNOPSIS

use File::Find::Rule;
# find all the subdirectories of a given directory
my @subdirs = File::Find::Rule->directory->in( $directory );

# find all the .pm files in @INC
my @files = File::Find::Rule->file()
                            ->name( '*.pm' )
                            ->in( @INC );

# as above, but without method chaining
my $rule =  File::Find::Rule->new;
$rule->file;
$rule->name( '*.pm' );
my @files = $rule->in( @INC );

DEPENDENCIES

This module has external dependencies on the following modules:

Cwd
File::Find
File::Spec
Module::Build	0.18
Number::Compare
Test::More
Text::Glob

INSTALLATION

perl Build.PL
perl Build test

and if all goes well

perl Build install

HISTORY

What changed over the last 3 revisions

0.25 Wednesday 22nd October, 2003

applied a patch from Leon Brocard to make the tests ignore CVS dirs
as well as .svn dirs.

reworked part of t/File-Find-Rule.t to not assume that t/foobar will
always be 10 bytes in size. (rt.cpan.org #3838)

now we install the findrule script

0.24 Monday 6th October, 2003

when you specify an extra of C<{ follow => 1 }> File::Find stops
populating $File::Find::topdir.  This leads to warnings noise so
instead we now track $topdir ourselves.

0.23 Friday 3rd October, 2003

make the extras hash work and add a proper test for it. (Doh!)

AUTHOR

Richard Clamp <richardc@unixbeard.net> with input gained from this use.perl discussion: http://use.perl.org/~richardc/journal/6467

Additional proofreading and input provided by Kake, Greg McCarroll, and Andy Lester andy@petdance.com.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2002,2003 Richard Clamp. All Rights Reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

File::Find, Text::Glob, Number::Compare, find(1)

If you want to know about the procedural interface, see File::Find::Rule::Procedural, and if you have an idea for a neat extension File::Find::Rule::Extending