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.  Any
>>>>>> thoughts?
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > Paul
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