I have directories on my Solaris 10 box like so: 
/home/vize/units/11780540/moving_code_AFT
/home/vize/units/91540670/moving_code_INT
..etc

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Now, each one of those numbers I am referring to as a unit. The moving_code_(THREE CAPITAL LETTERS) directory has three random letters, so I am using glob to figure out what the directory is named. However, I am running into an issue. 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

my $UNIT_DIR = '/home/vize/units';

# Get all units in $UNIT_DIR
my $dh;
opendir $dh, $UNIT_DIR or die "Couldn't open dir '$UNIT_DIR': $!";
my @units = grep { !/^\.\.?$/ } readdir $dh;
closedir $dh;

if ( @units ) {
    foreach my $unit (@units) {
        my $moving_code_dir = glob("$UNIT_DIR/$unit/moving_code_*");
        my $moving_code = (split("/",$moving_code_dir))[-1];
        if ( $moving_code_dir ) {
            print "$unit good\n";
        }
        else {
            print "$unit bad\n";
        }
    }
}

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Simple, not much really there. The problem I am having is that this piece of code always finds the moving_code_ directory for every other unit, even though the directory exists for every unit. 
00116122 good
00114295 bad
00114952 good
00116121 bad
00117351 good
00114294 bad
00114293 good
00114292 bad
00114291 good
00117349 bad
00116120 good
00116119 bad

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Now, I know the moving_code_ directory is there, and it's the same as the previous unit (except the three random letters), so I'm not sure why it's not finding it. Could this be an issue with Solaris 10 filesystem? Am I doing something wrong with my glob here? Any ideas? I am at a loss.

In reply to Coming across an issue with glob. Is only able to find every other directory. by walkingthecow

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