Dear Monks,

I am writing a script that can take the search pattern as an argument and list all the files that match that pattern in a specified directory.

The below script works fine as long as I provide the search pattern as words or numbers. 

use strict;

my $wildcard = $ARGV[0];

print "wildcard is $wildcard\n";

my $filespath = '/path/to/files/';

opendir DIR, $filespath or die "Couldn't open $filespath: $!\n";

# Sort by asc order (time)
# (The commented line below sorts all the files that end with ".cgi"  
#my @dirfiles = sort { -M $filespath.$a <=> -M $filespath.$b } grep /\
+.cgi$/, readdir DIR;

my @dirfiles = sort { -M $filespath.$a <=> -M $filespath.$b } grep /$w
+ildcard/, readdir DIR;

foreach (@dirfiles){

  print "$filespath$_\n"


}

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How do I make it work for patterns such as "a*sample*.cgi" (the string to match is within the quotes)?

Thanks, Vgn

In reply to Wildcard search in a directory by Anonymous Monk

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