On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 01:37:39AM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > Hi all > > Sorry if this is too off-topic, but on debian-user there is usually > excellent help, so I cannot resist. =) > > How do I deal with the situation where glob("*") is used and where there > are files that contain spaces in their file names? > > I know spaces in file names suck. I have no choice. It's the way it is. > > What I like about glob() is that it returns the whole path as opposed to > readdir(DIR) which only returns the top of the path. > That is very useful for my situation, so I need this property. > > So, is there any way to make glob("*") smart about files with spaces in > their names? > > Has anyone dealt with something similar before?
afaik, it depends on the perl version whether spaces in filenames will cause problems. Perl-5.004 was buggy in that respect, while perl-5.005_03 and perl-5.6.x work correctly: $ ls -1 test 1.dat test 2.dat with version 5.004 you get: $ perl -e 'print join "\n",glob("*")' test 1.dat test 2.dat with both 5.005 and 5.6 you get (at least I do here...): $ perl -e 'print join "\n",glob("*")' test 1.dat test 2.dat -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing ag -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --