One feature of Perl that I use quite often is the ability to parse and concatenate a "glob" of command-line specified files into the standard input.

ie The command-line input is

 ) perl myscript.pl ~/myinput/*

and myscript.pl is: 

$/ = "\r"; # I'm on Mac OS X.
while (<>) { do stuff with $_ };

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..which concatenates all the files in the myinput directory and feeds them to my script one line at a time.

I'm using an environment which doesn't give me access to the command-line (BBEdit, a text editor), and I would like to specify that my input files for use by <> are "~/myinput/*" quickly and easily.

What is the best way to do this from inside the script itself, not using the command line?

In reply to Moving Input Data Files into Script Proper. by tomazos

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