Friends,

I am trying to write a script that will take a directory as an argument and look to files that have unwanted characters in their names. For example the scrirpt would work like this ... 
bash-2.03$ ls -l DIR/
total 4
-rw-------   1 pk     ton         180 Dec  1 12:45 junk
-rw-------   1 pk     ton          20 Dec  1 12:45 rm -f .
bash-2.03$ 
bash-2.03$ ./testFNI.pl  DIR/
./testFNI.pl : ILLEGAL FILE NAME in DIR [rm -f .]

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Here is what I have tried so far ... 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use File::Copy;
use File::Basename;
 
sub illegalFile {
        my $dir=shift;
 
        #look for dangerous file name
#for my $FN  ( glob( '$dir/*"[ |\~|\?|\<|\>|\,|\`|\!|\@|\#|\%|\^|\&|\*
+|\||\(|\)|\;|\+|\=|\{|\}|\\|\[|\]|\-]"*' )) {
#for my $FN  ( glob( "$dir/*[ \~\?\<\>\,\`\!\@\#\%\^\&\*\|\(\)\;\+\=\{
+\}\\\[\]\-]*" )) {
my $pat  = $dir . "/" . quotemeta ("*[ ~?<>,`!@#%^&*|();+={}\[]-");
for my $FN  ( glob $pat ) {
                print "$0 : ILLEGAL FILE NAME in $dir [$FN]\n";
 
                my $PATH_HAVING_ILLEGAL_FILE=dirname $dir;
                my ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isds
+t) = localtime(time);
                my $DIR_HAVING_ILLEGAL_FILE="$PATH_HAVING_ILLEGAL_FILE
+/ILLEGAL_FILE_NAME_" . $year
                                . "_" . $mon
                                . "_" . $mday
                                . "_" . $hour
                                . "_" . $min
                                . "_" . $sec;
                mkdir $DIR_HAVING_ILLEGAL_FILE;
                move(  $dir, $DIR_HAVING_ILLEGAL_FILE );
                mkdir $dir;
                mailError ("illegal file name detected!");
                exit 1;
        }
        ### END look for dangerous file name
}
 
my $dir = shift;
if ( !$dir ) { die "usage : $0 <dir>\n"; }
illegalFile ($dir);

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... this code doesn't find the bad file name. Other things I have tried think every file is bad!


Plankton: 1% Evil, 99% Hot Gas.

In reply to using glob to find "unwanted" file names by Plankton

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