perl file browser

[Madison Kelly]

Hi all,

   I am still new to perl but wow have I learned a lot in the last week 
or so! What I need now (and am hoping there is a canned script one of 
you knows about that I can re-purpose) is a perl/CGI program for 
creating a nice'ish list of the directories and files on a partition. 
What I need is a way to list all the directories with the ability to 
click on a directory and have it show sub directories and so on (similar 
to any number of file system browsers).

   I then need to be able to select any given group of directories and 
files and dump that list to a text file (I know it's ugly and I should 
use a DB but one thing at a time). I also want to be able to select a 
directory and let the user decide whether or not to include new files 
and subdirectories that may be added after the file is saved. (I was 
thinking of accomplishing this by tagging a flag to directory names 
where one value will tell perl to rescan and include anything new before 
executing).

   After checking for changes I want perl to 'cp' all the directories 
and files selected to another location. Sound easy? :) I already have 
the better part of the program's sanity checking done where I validate 
source, destination and online partitions (using things like 'blkid', 
'fstab', 'df', etc) so I already have sufficient access rights to do 
this via the browser (using 'sudo' where needed, please don't yell at me 
for security [though helpful advice is always appreciated]!).

   Does anyone either know of a similar script that does this that I can 
hack up and study or does anyone have any helpful advice they think 
might help me if I do end up having to write this from the ground up? 
Thanks!!

Madison

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