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

[Andrew Perrin <aperrin@email.unc.edu>]

>       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').

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Andrew J Perrin - Ph.D. Candidate, UC Berkeley, Dept. of Sociology  
(Soon: Asst Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
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