NAME

File::Find::Fast

SYNOPSIS

A module to find files much more quickly than `File::Find`. The trick is that it doesn't `stat` any files.

Quick start

use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper qw/Dumper/;
use File::Find::Fast qw/find/;

my $files = find("some/directory");
print Dumper $files

DESCRIPTION

I purely made this module because I wanted a fast way to list files without running stat. By using this module, you do not get file information directly. You would have to use `stat` or similar methods as a follow up.

METHODS

find($dir)

Finds all files in a directory, recursively.

my $files = find("t/files");
print join("\n", @$files);
print "\n";

find_iterator

An iterator for finding files. Breadth first. This is useful if you don't want to load all the files into memory first.

$it = find_iterator("t/files");
while(my $f=$it->()){
  next if($f =~ /2/); # skip any file that has a 2 in it
  print $f."\n";
}