I appreciate this is a little off topic, but a colleague and I've googled for most of this morning with no joy. This is my last port of call, so any help would be gratefully appreciated.

I have a process running on Debian which uses glob to scan for incoming files of a certain type. Currently we use a file spec something like *_{process,read}_* This works great on files with names like:
abc_read_today.dat

The trouble is, that for operational reasons, the format is going to change so that a file could now be called:
abc_leave_today+abc_read_today.dat

We only want to process a file if it has 'read' or 'process' before the first '+'. Does anyone have any ideas on this?

We have looked into doing a glob on the file spec, then splitting the file on the '+' and doing a Perl regex on the file spec. This is the plan of last resort as I am not 100% happy that we can reliably convert the file specs to Perl regexs.

As I said, sorry that this isn’t strictly Perl, but it is in relation to a Perl process.

In reply to Glob filespec by bangers

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