Fast file scan

[Harald Fuchs]

lwall at jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes:
>open(FIND,"find topdir -type f -print|") || die "Can't run find: $!\n";
Shouldn't that read something like
  $p = open(FIND,"find topdir -type f -print|");
  $x = $!;
  die "Can't run find: $x\n" unless kill 0, $p;
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Harald Fuchs <fuchs at it.uka.de> <fuchs%it.uka.de at relay.cs.net> ...