Re^2: Read only Files in a Directory

characters meaningful to csh must be escaped

Not in my experience (on a Unix, though):

## create some files with funny names
map { 
  open my $fd, '>', chr $_ or die "open: $!";
  close $fd;
} 33..45,58..63,91..96,123..126

$ perl -le 'print glob q[+]'
+
$ perl -le 'print glob q[`]'
`
$ perl -le 'print glob q[;]'
;
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The only gotchas are * and ?:

$ perl -le 'print glob q[?]'
!"#$%&'()*+,-:;<=>?[\]^_`{|}~
$ perl -le 'print glob q[\?]'
?

$ perl -le 'print glob q[*]'
!"#$%&'()*+,-:;<=>?[\]^_`{|}~
$ perl -le 'print glob q[\*]'
*
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David Serrano

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Re^3: Read only Files in a Directory by swampyankee (Parson) on Aug 02, 2006 at 14:24 UTC
Not in my experience (on a Unix, though): It is my experience on Windows: it gets confused about blanks in directory names, possibly because it's implemented differently in the Windows port than in the various *ixen. I don't know whether using `opendir` and `readdir` is better than `glob`, but I usually find `glob` more convenient. emc Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. Groucho Marx	[reply]

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Re^3: Read only Files in a Directory
by swampyankee (Parson) on Aug 02, 2006 at 14:24 UTC

Not in my experience (on a Unix, though):

It is my experience on Windows: it gets confused about blanks in directory names, possibly because it's implemented differently in the Windows port than in the various *ixen.

I don't know whether using opendir and readdir is better than glob, but I usually find glob more convenient.

emc

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

Groucho Marx

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