Re: [perl] glob() and filenames w/ spaces
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?
Hmmm try this, works for me:
perl -we 'print join " ", glob("*");'
I prefer:
perl -we 'print $_,"\n" foreach(glob("*"));
File::Find might be a good choice for this task.
Juan Fuentes
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