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authorAbhijit Menon-Sen <ams@toroid.org>2009-09-03 00:09:44 +0530
committerAbhijit Menon-Sen <ams@toroid.org>2009-09-03 00:10:13 +0530
commit19aca64933c801470dbac7c3262f00a8f0d0310b (patch)
treeed72c5a1e24774162de26392daa524fcf91cefbe /lib/find.pl
parent6fa80ea2f46c3527db9bfc3ba3a52c12826c85c7 (diff)
downloadperl-19aca64933c801470dbac7c3262f00a8f0d0310b.tar.gz
Deprecate lib/find{,depth}.pl with a warning
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/find.pl')
-rw-r--r--lib/find.pl15
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/find.pl b/lib/find.pl
index ee5dc5d150..e8e4eb76d2 100644
--- a/lib/find.pl
+++ b/lib/find.pl
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+# This library is deprecated and unmaintained. It is included for
+# compatibility with Perl 4 scripts which may use it, but it will be
+# removed in a future version of Perl. Please use the File::Find module
+# instead.
+
+warn( "Please use the File::Find module instead of the deprecated"
+ ." 'find.pl' library, which will be removed in the next major"
+ ." release of perl" );
+
# Usage:
# require "find.pl";
#
@@ -10,11 +19,11 @@
# to $dir when the function is called. The function may
# set $prune to prune the tree.
#
-# This library is primarily for find2perl, which, when fed
+# For example,
#
-# find2perl / -name .nfs\* -mtime +7 -exec rm -f {} \; -o -fstype nfs -prune
+# find / -name .nfs\* -mtime +7 -exec rm -f {} \; -o -fstype nfs -prune
#
-# spits out something like this
+# corresponds to this
#
# sub wanted {
# /^\.nfs.*$/ &&