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copied!<p>I have a script to find Directories and .tar.gz Files. For whatever reason (that's what I'm hoping you can help me with) my</p> <pre><code>if ( -d $file ) </code></pre> <p>doesn't return that it's a directory!!!</p> <p>My Script:</p> <pre><code># specify the directory where you want to start the search my $directory = $ARGV[0]; my $directoryCount = 0; # Calling the Subroutine, which searches the File readDirectory($directory); sub readDirectory { my $directory = shift; my $searchfile = shift; my @directories; my $tarOuput; # a little bit output, in which directory the script # is searching at the moment (the following line is not necessary) print "Searching in $directory\n\n"; # Open and close the directory opendir(DIR, $directory) or die("ERROR: Couldn't open specified directory $!"); my @files = readdir DIR; closedir DIR; shift(@files); shift(@files); print "------------------------------------------------------------------------ \n\n"; foreach my $currentFile (@files) { print "Current File:", $currentFile, "\n\n"; if ( -d $currentFile ) #THIS DOESN'T WORK?!?!?!?!? { print "Directory: ", $currentFile, "\n\n"; #push (@directories, $currentFile); #print "Found new directory: $directories[$directoryCount]\n\nCurrent number = $directoryCount\n\n"; #$directoryCount++; #print "Directories: ", @directories, "\n\n"; #next; # The Subroutine is calling hisself with the new parameters #readDirectory($currentFile); #recursive call through sub-directories } elsif ( $currentFile =~ /\.tar.gz$/i || $currentFile =~ /\.tar$/i) { print "File: ", $currentFile, "\n\n"; my $tarOutput = `tar -tvzf $currentFile`; print $tarOutput, "\n"; } print "----------------------------------------------------------------------- \n\n"; } } </code></pre> <p>The print statement that will print the $currentFile if it's a directory never prints...</p> <p>Output:</p> <pre><code>Searching in /home/gackerma/Logs ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Current File:Dir1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Current File:file ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Current File:configs.tar.gz File: configs.tar.gz tar (child): configs.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now tar: Child returned status 2 tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Current File:adstatlog.299 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Current File:adstatlog.tgz ----------------------------------------------------------------------- </code></pre> <p>I've done the exact same thing with a super simple script in the same directory and it works...But nope, not here. I don't understand what's wrong...?</p> <p>Help please?</p>

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