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 -- Andrew Dunstan https://www.2ndQuadrant.com PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
