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in thread glob() and dot files

This prints all simple files, but skips directories.

my @files = glob ('*.*');

No, it prints any file or directory names that have a dot in them. It's a very old DOS convention that files had extensions and directories didn't, but nowadays that's not true anymore. You'd need grep {!-d} glob('*') to exclude directories.

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Re^3: glob() and dot files
by Marshall (Canon) on Apr 13, 2020 at 09:04 UTC
    You are correct.
    my @files = glob('*'); # current directory
print "",join("\n",@files), "\n";

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    # Note that these file names do not say whether or not they are directories, a file test is needed. I demo'ed this at Re: Getting a list of directories matching a pattern.

    Update: I experimented with Windows 10 command line and found that I could indeed create a directory with a "dot suffix". That surprised me.Having said that, I have never seen such a thing in "real life". By convention, that is just not "the way that this is done". A long time ago, I was forced to use readdir and grep to get file names because of incompatible glob's. For production code, I still use readdir and grep because it will always work. For quick hacks, I am fine with glob().

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      a directory with a "dot suffix". That surprised me.Having said that, I have never seen such a thing in "real life". By convention, that is just not "the way that this is done".

      The two places I see it happen the most are when some programs put their version number as part of the directory name (C:\Program Files\FooBar v1.23) or when *NIX tools are ported to Windows.

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        Good comments.
        Instead of something like: C:\Program Files\FooBar v1.23, I use personally would use: C:\Program Files\FooBar v1_23. However not all folks think that way. True.

        Having said that, I am a supporter of using readdir(). Having been burned a few times with different versions of glob(), I use readdir() for all production code. I do sometimes use glob() for short tests where my code is just looking in the current dir for specific ".suffixes".

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