Not sure what you mean exactly by doing a glob on those directories.

If you mean something like looking for plain files beginning with 'abc', I
think you have to do a readdir and something like a
next unless ($_ =~ m/^abc/);
next unless (-f $_);

Paul

On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 3:02 PM, Curt Lundgren <[email protected]> wrote:

> I love it when I learn something new - never saw opendir or its related
> commands before.
>
> I'm curious, can you do a glob on those directories?
>
> On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 2:34 PM, Paul Boniol <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> / ok
>> /cygdrive - Fails
>> /cygdrive/c fails
>> /home Fails
>> /home/paul Fails
>> . Ok
>>
>> Paul
>> On May 9, 2015 2:22 PM, "Tilghman Lesher" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Can you do an opendir on something higher in the chain?  I'd suggest
>>> something along the lines of "/cygdrive/c", or something like that, to
>>> see if the problem is the opendir command itself, or if it's something
>>> higher.  For that matter, can you do an opendir on "/"?
>>>
>>> On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Paul Boniol <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>> > I'm sure this is a SMDH moment... but I have a Perl program that does
>>> an
>>> > opendir to get the list of files.  Been running fine for years under
>>> Cygwin.
>>> > I just installed Cygwin64.  Tried to run it.  opendir fails with "No
>>> such
>>> > file or directory".
>>> >
>>> > Doing a command line   ls same-dir-path   works fine.
>>> >
>>> > It is outside C:\Cygwin64\ so the path is a
>>> /cygdrive/c/some/other/dir/....
>>> > but that shouldn't matter.  (Also tried from a symbolic link)
>>> >
>>> > I'm sure it is something I'm doing wrong, but this is so simple, I
>>> don't
>>> > know what I could be doing wrong, or failing to check.  Any thoughts?
>>> >
>>> > Paul
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