On 1/21/19 11:18 AM, Fabien COELHO wrote:
>
> Hello Tom,
>
>> Well, glob does have some metacharacters, so not doing any quoting
>> at all still leaves us with failure modes.
>>
>> I did a little bit of googling on this subject last night, and it
>> seems that at least some people believe that the answer is to not
>> use glob, period, but read the directory for yourself.
>
> Yep, would work, it can then be filtered with standard regexpr,
> although it will take a few lines (opendir/grep on readdir/closedir).
Sure, probably the best solution. Given that Perl has
opendir/readdir/closedir, it should be only a handful of lines.
cheers
andrew
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