Re^2: finding a file exist amongst many files

thanks for the reply steve. basically i am looking for if a file with tpsm_x exists, so on the shell it is pretty easy to find this. i want to know its perl counterpart, nevertheless i can try this but i don't want to install this package(legacy code issues).

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Re^3: finding a file exist amongst many files by Corion (Patriarch) on Aug 25, 2016 at 14:22 UTC
Have you looked at glob or at `bsd_glob` in File::Glob ?	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: finding a file exist amongst many files by stevieb (Canon) on Aug 25, 2016 at 14:27 UTC
Take two, with builtins only. Note that with `readdir`, it doesn't keep the whole path, so you have to add it back manually: `use warnings; use strict; my $dir = 'test'; opendir my $dh, $dir or die $!; while (readdir $dh){ if (/tpsm_.*/ && -f "$dir/$_"){ print "$dir/$_ is a file\n"; } }` [download] update: or use `glob` as Corion said :)	[reply] [d/l] [select]