On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 22:47:05 -0500, Tom Allison wrote:
> Gustav Wiberg wrote:
>> Hi again!
>>
>> If I understood it right...
>>
>> @list = glob('*.txt');
>>
>> would return all files that ends with *.txt in current directory?
>>
> Usually.
> If there are a lot of files in the directory, this will file. About the
> same time that the shell command 'rm' or 'ls' will faile if you do:
>
> rm *.txt
Only if you're using a Perl from the last millennium. Starting with
version 5.6.0, glob() no longer calls out to csh and does not have the
same limitations.
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