File::Find::Rule::Procedural(3)            User Contributed Perl Documentation


NAME
       File::Find::Rule::Procedural - File::Find::Rule's procedural interface

SYNOPSIS
         use File::Find::Rule;

         # find all .pm files, procedurally
         my @files = find(file => name => '*.pm', in => \@INC);

DESCRIPTION
       In addition to the regular object-oriented interface, File::Find::Rule
       provides two subroutines for you to use.

       find( @clauses )
       rule( @clauses )
           "find" and "rule" can be used to invoke any methods available to
           the OO version.  "rule" is a synonym for "find"

       Passing more than one value to a clause is done with an anonymous
       array:

        my $finder = find( name => [ '*.mp3', '*.ogg' ] );

       "find" and "rule" both return a File::Find::Rule instance, unless one
       of the arguments is "in", in which case it returns a list of things
       that match the rule.

        my @files = find( name => [ '*.mp3', '*.ogg' ], in => $ENV{HOME} );

       Please note that "in" will be the last clause evaluated, and so this
       code will search for mp3s regardless of size.

        my @files = find( name => '*.mp3', in => $ENV{HOME}, size => '<2k' );
                                                           ^
                                                           |
                      Clause processing stopped here ------/

       It is also possible to invert a single rule by prefixing it with "!"
       like so:

        # large files that aren't videos
        my @files = find( file    =>
                          '!name' => [ '*.avi', '*.mov' ],
                          size    => '>20M',
                          in      => $ENV{HOME} );

AUTHOR
       Richard Clamp <richardc@unixbeard.net>

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 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::Rule

perl v5.38.0                      2023-07-25   File::Find::Rule::Procedural(3)