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NAME

File::Common - List files that are found in {all,more than one} directories

VERSION

This document describes version 0.003 of File::Common (from Perl distribution File-Common), released on 2019-04-16.

SYNOPSIS

 use File::Common qw(list_common_files);

 my $res = list_common_files(
     dirs => ["dir1", "dir2"],
     # min_occurrence => 2, # optional, the default if unset is to return files that exist in all dirs
 );

Given this tree:

 dir1/
   file1
   sub1/
     file2
     file3

 dir2/
   file2
   sub1/
     file3
   file3
   file4

Will return:

 ["file1", "sub1/file3"]

DESCRIPTION

FUNCTIONS

list_common_files

Usage:

 list_common_files(%args) -> any

List files that are found in {all,more than one} directories.

This routine lists files that are found in all specified directories (or, when min_occurrences option is specified, files that are found in at least a certain number of occurrences. Note that only filenames are compared, not content/checksum. Directories are excluded.

This function is not exported by default, but exportable.

Arguments ('*' denotes required arguments):

  • detail => bool

    Whether to return detailed result per file.

    If set to true, instead of an array of filenames:

     ["file1", "file2"]

    it will instead return a hash with filename as key and another hash containing detailed information:

     {
         "file1" => {
             dirs => ["dir1", "dir2"], # in which dirs the file is found
         },
         "file2" => {
             ...
         },
     }
  • dirs* => array[dirname]

  • min_occurrence => posint

Return value: (any)

HOMEPAGE

Please visit the project's homepage at https://metacpan.org/release/File-Common.

SOURCE

Source repository is at https://github.com/perlancar/perl-File-Common.

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=File-Common

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.

SEE ALSO

File::Find::Duplicate

AUTHOR

perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2019 by perlancar@cpan.org.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.