Excellent link! On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 6:23 PM, Paul Boniol <[email protected]> wrote:
> Here's what I found for why one would want to use one method over the > other: > > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1506801/what-reasons-are-there-to-prefer-glob-over-readdir-or-vice-versa-in-perl > > In my case, I wanted every entry except '.' and '..', so readdir made > sense. > > Paul > > On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Curt Lundgren <[email protected]> wrote: > >> If I want all the files in a directory I'd do: >> >> my @files = glob( "/path/to/directory/*" ); >> >> Works every time for me. >> >> On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Paul Boniol <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> 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. 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