Hi,

Thanks for the response.

glob expands * but you have to give it full paths

Ok.

Be careful to use forward slashes.

Yep.

For full caveats see 'perldoc -f glob' and File::Glob

I read both before I posted. They weren't helpful. There doesn't seem to be anything in the docs that discusses the return value of glob. The only thing of note (to me) in the File::Glob docs was this:

 The C glob code has the following copyright:

    Copyright (c) 1989, 1993 The Regents of the University of Californ
+ia.
    All rights reserved.
    This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
    Guido van Rossum.
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Monks, bow down and hail the BDFL. The True Path has been revealed.

Another way to do it:

#!/sw/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use File::Glob ':glob';

my @files = </sw/bin/*>;
foreach my $file (@files) {
   print $file . "\n";
}
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I'm using Tiger. Here, it shows me all the files in /sw/bin.

Hi,

My book mentions legacy code may contain that syntax--even though it it used to be inefficient because it caused a separate process to start up. I find that I don't have to import ':glob' (or anything else from File::Glob) for that syntax to work.

Thanks.

Um, this is not slashdot.