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

[will trillich <will@serensoft.com>]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 01:37:39AM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> Sorry if this is too off-topic, but on debian-user there is usually
> excellent help, so I cannot resist. =)
> 
> How do I deal with the situation where glob("*") is used and where there
> are files that contain spaces in their file names?
> 
> I know spaces in file names suck. I have no choice. It's the way it is.
> 
> What I like about glob() is that it returns the whole path as opposed to
> readdir(DIR) which only returns the top of the path.
> That is very useful for my situation, so I need this property.
> 
> So, is there any way to make glob("*") smart about files with spaces in
> their names?

	touch 'this and that'
	perl -e 'print join ":",glob("*")'

eek. doesn't look good.

	perl -e 'opendir DIR,".";print join ":",grep/.*/,readdir DIR'

better, but uses regex instead of glob patterns.

or, maybe try

	use File::Find;
	my @list = ();
	find( \&iterator , "./path/one" , "/another/path/here");
	&munge( @list );

	sub iterator {
		push @list,$File::Find::name
			if $File::Find::name =~ m{$pattern}o
				or &conditions_are_just_so($something);
	}

see the camel book for more on File::Find.

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