README for File::Find::Rule 0.30 =head1 NAME File::Find::Rule - Alternative interface to File::Find =head1 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 ); =head1 DEPENDENCIES This module has external dependencies on the following modules: Cwd File::Find File::Spec Number::Compare Test::More Text::Glob =head1 INSTALLATION perl Build.PL perl Build test and if all goes well perl Build install =head1 HISTORY What changed over the last 3 revisions =over =item 0.30 Wednesday 1st June, 2006 Made './//././././///.//././/////./blah' be treated the same as './blah' (it gets turned into 'blah') =item 0.29 Tuesday 16th May, 2006 Kludged around {min,max}depth and trailing slashes in path names. =item 0.28 Tuesday 18th May, 2004 exposed %X_tests and @stat_tests as package variables, and make a _call_find method for File::Find::Rule::Filesys::Virtual =back =head1 AUTHOR Richard Clamp 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. =head1 COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006 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. =head1 SEE ALSO L, L, L, find(1) If you want to know about the procedural interface, see L, and if you have an idea for a neat extension L