NAME File::Find::Rule::TTMETA - Find files based on Template Toolkit META directives SYNOPSIS use File::Find::Rule qw(:TTMETA); my @files = find(ttmeta => { author => "darren chamberlain" }, in => "/var/www/html"); DESCRIPTION "File::Find::Rule::TTMETA" extends "File::Find::Rule" to work with Template Toolkit templates by providing access to template-specific metadata. "File::Find::Rule::TTMETA" adds a "ttmeta" method / keyword to "File::Find::Rule". "ttmeta" takes a series of name, value tuples, each of which is compared to the metadata for the file in question (a "Template::Provider" instance attempts to treat each file as a template; compile errors are silently skipped). A file matches if *each* element of metadata defined in "ttmeta" is present. If there are multiple keys defined, all must match for the file to be considered a match. Values can be strings or regexes: find(ttmeta => { VERSION => qr/^2\.\d+/ } => in => $dir); File::Find::Rule->file ->ttmeta(color => "green", sheep => 3) ->in($dir); More complex variables are not (currently) supported by this module, even though "Template::Document" supports them. Patches welcome. Template Toolkit DETAILS "File::Find::Rule::TTMETA" uses "Template::Config" to instantiate its "Template::Provider" instance, so it is possible to use custom provider subclasses. The "Template::Provider" instance that is created has only "ABSOLUTE => 1" set, mainly because most of the other options don't really apply here, but also because I can't think of an elegant way to pass configuration parameters to the constructor. SEE ALSO the File::Find::Rule manpage, the Template manpage