I'm attempting to write a command-line utility that will allow users to search & replace blocks of text over multiple files. The first step in this, obviously, is getting my list of matching files.

Users are directed to input a line such as "replacer -i *.html" to tell the program what base of files to start with. However, when I use getopts() to grab the *.html, it only gives me the first item. After placing single quotes around my command-line argument, I get the literal argument.

This, I'm afraid, is not working well with my method of extracting the proper files out of a directory listing, as I get a regex error when I do a $x =~ /$opt_i/.

What's the best way of extracting the list of files that match a simple expression such as *.html? I'm sure there's some good trick to this, as people must have to use this all the time.

Thanks,
Alex Kirk

In reply to Getting files matching pattern (i.e. *.html) by schnarff

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