Short Answer: use File::Glob's bsd_glob instead of CORE::glob.

Long Answer:

I get the same problem. At first, it appears to be a bug. Supposing the following directory tree:

/dir1/file1
/dir two/file2

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And the following code:

foreach my $dir (glob("*")) {
  foreach  my $file (glob("$dir/*")) {
      print "[$file]\n";
  }
}

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I get back 'dir' and 'dir1/file1'. Strangely enough, if I use File::Glob's bsd_glob, it works just fine:


use File::Glob qw(bsd_glob);
foreach my $dir (bsd_glob("*")) {
  foreach  my $file (bsd_glob("$dir/*")) {
      print "file [$file]\n";
  }
}

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So, I looked at the docs and found that it's working as documented :)

Since v5.6.0, Perl's CORE::glob() is implemented in terms of bsd_glob(). Note that they don't share the same prototype--CORE::glob() only accepts a single argument. Due to historical reasons, CORE::glob() will also split its argument on whitespace, treating it as multiple patterns, whereas bsd_glob() considers them as one pat tern.

In reply to Re: globing files with spaces problem. by kschwab
in thread globing files with spaces problem. by Nabuku

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