concatenate files recursively in win32

[Mike James]

I admit it. I'm a newbie...

I want to concatenate a series of text files by recursively going down a
folder hierarchy. All the files have the same extension (*.txt) and I'm
running WinXP Home with ActiveState Perl v5.6.1

Any help will be much appreciated.

regards, Mike

[Jim Gibson]

In article <Xn*******************************@206.127.4.25> , Mike James
<bi**@spam.no> wrote:

I admit it. I'm a newbie...

I want to concatenate a series of text files by recursively going down a
folder hierarchy. All the files have the same extension (*.txt) and I'm
running WinXP Home with ActiveState Perl v5.6.1

Any help will be much appreciated.

regards, Mike

Check out the module File::Find (I have not used it, but it should
enable you to do what you want.) If you don't have that, or can't
figure out how to use it (it uses subroution references, which can make
it complicated for a beginner), then check out the opendir, readdir,
and closedir functions, and file test operators.

If you have perldoc installed:

perldoc File::Find
perldoc -f opendir
perldoc -f readdir
perldoc perlfunc <- search for "file test" or "Alphabetical
Listing of Perl Functions"
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