Re: [perl] glob() and filenames w/ spaces

[will trillich <will@serensoft.com>]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 08:43:00PM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> >       perl -e 'opendir DIR,".";print join ":",grep/.*/,readdir DIR'
> 
> What's the point of the grep() there?  grep /.*/ by definition returns all
> elements (since . is 'any character' and * is 'zero or more of them').

you're right.

i was pursuing parallelism with glob("*"), that's all.

	glob("string*ext")

would translate into

	grep /string.*ext/

for example.

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$ perl -V
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DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #3 from Will Trillich <will@serensoft.com>:
Wondering how to find WHICH PACKAGE CONTAINS x-y-or-z? Just enter
"dpkg -S part/of/path" and you'll get a list of all packages that
affect paths like that. For an example, try "dpkg -S http".

Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...