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On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Bryan Harris wrote:
> I have a directory with around 20k files in it (input files to a
> simulation, if it matters). I've written a perl script that will
> build a run script for input files, but it doesn't work when I pass a
> certain limit... (I think it's characters, not number of files.)
>
> I'm using the:
>
> @files = <*.in>;
>
> ... notation with Perl 5.0. If I have too many files, @files ends up
> with nothing. Is there a way to read in all 20k names?
Is that a typo, or are you really running Perl 5.0 (zero) ? That version
of Perl must be something like 15 years old by now. Please send the list
the output of a `perl -v` or `perl -V` to clarify this.
The other approach I can think of is to skip the plain glob and instead
loop over the directory, `push`ing each file into the @files array but
also including debugging statements:
while ... {
$iterator++
push( @files, $file ) or
die "She can' take no more than $iterator, cap'n! $file $!";
}
That might at least pin down what your Perl's limits are...
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