Re: [MacPerl] Filename globbing

[Matthias Ulrich Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>]

Tom Harrington <tph@shell.rmi.net> writes:
>>>     unlink("./foo/*");
>>
>>I must point out, first, that this construct is far from portable among
>>Unix boxes even. unlink() does not normally allow globbing (Nor should it,
>>IMHO).
>
>Interesting.  The script in question has (until now) only been used on
>SunOS Unix boxes.  

I failed to reproduce that here on a SunOS 4.1.4 machine. Are you sure it
was an unlink in the original and not something like `rm x/*` or
system "rm x/*" ?

>>>Given that installing csh is not really an option, how can
>>>I properly glob filenames in a folder whose name includes
>>>spaces?
>>
>>It might be possible for me to fix glob.
>
>It would seem that somebody will need to fix it, but I don't know if it's
>really your responsibility.

Too late. I already went ahead & did it.

Matthias

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