Hi,

Platform: WinNT 4.0, sp6a, IIS 4, Perl 522

Problem:

I need to read the contents of remote directories. Using readdir and looping through the array of resulting files isn't sufficient, because of the quantity of servers and files. I need to use wildcards to speed up the search (this cuts the run time from hours to minutes)and use it with either glob or a system call to dir, ex: 

$filefind='ct'."$name".'*'.'.*';
$path="\\\\$server\\path";
@filea=glob (<$path\\$filefind>);
@fileb=<$path\\$filefind>;
@filec=`dir $path\\$filefind /b /o`;

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When the code is called from the command window it runs OK. But, when called from a browser as expected dir fails, however, glob also fails, I guess it calls an exe that isn't allowed from within IIS. Looping through the files of readdir takes to long...Does anyone know how to get around the IIS command shell restriction, or another Perl way of listing remote files using wild cards that would/might work with IIS?

Thanks.
Mitch

edited: Mon Dec 16 16:57:46 2002 by jeffa - code tags, formatting

In reply to IIS Glob-Dir Restriction by Anonymous Monk

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