globbing on remote network paths

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Re: globbing on remote network paths by Corion (Patriarch) on Jun 19, 2007 at 16:07 UTC
Most likely, your backslashes are interpreted in the doublequotes by Perl. Try some diagnostic messages to debug the problem: `my $path = "\\sottbuild1f\\blacksea\\daily\\oqp\\*inst.tar.gz"; print "Searching files in >>$path<<\n"; my @files = glob($path);` [download] Also, glob isn't completely suitable for getting files in a directory because it treats spaces in the path differently from how Perl treats spaces everywhere else, because glob tries to emulate a shell. I commonly use the following code to switch `glob` to a sane(r) behaviour: `use File::Glob qw(bsd_glob); my @programs = glob 'C:/Program Files';` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: globbing on remote network paths by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on Jun 19, 2007 at 17:15 UTC
Corion, I have wondered this for sometime, but never asked. The docs for glob in recent versions indicate that it is implemented using File::Glob and the documentation indicates that File::Glob is a Perl extension for BSD glob routine. If this is the case, than shouldn't glob already be doing a bsd_glob? Update: I just read further down in the docs where it says: "Due to historical reasons, CORE::glob() will also split its argument on whitespace, treating it as multiple patterns, whereas bsd_glob() considers them as one pattern." Cheers - L~R	[reply]
Re: globbing on remote network paths by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jun 19, 2007 at 18:06 UTC
`"\\sottbuild1f\\blacksea\\daily\\oqp\\inst.tar.gz"` [download] results in `\sottbuild1f\blacksea\daily\oqp\inst.tar.gz` [download] I think you want `\\sottbuild1f\blacksea\daily\oqp\inst.tar.gz` [download] which would be represented by the literal `"\\\\sottbuild1f\\blacksea\\daily\\oqp\\inst.tar.gz"` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: globbing on remote network paths by nimdokk (Vicar) on Jun 19, 2007 at 16:07 UTC
Is this supposed to be a UNC? a relative directory? You might take a look at using File::Spec to build your path to make sure that the directory seperators are correct. Something like `$path=File::Spec->catfile('//server','share','dir-1','*inst.tar.gz');` You might need to play around with this some to get it to work right. You might also want to chdir to the directory prior to running the glob.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: globbing on remote network paths by Anonymous Monk on Aug 22, 2007 at 04:06 UTC
I had this same issue and changed glob to use the forward slash convention for directories (instead of the Windows back slash). ie my @files = glob( "\\\\server\\dir\\" ) does not work my @files = glob ( "//server/dir/" ) does work	[reply]