Re: File::Glob Ignores Dot Files

by Aristotle (Chancellor)

on Nov 26, 2003 at 11:10 UTC ( [id://310198]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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This is known, expected and desired behaviour. The proper glob pattern to include all files other than . and .. is {[^.],.[^.],.??*,*}

Makeshifts last the longest.

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Re^2: File::Glob Ignores Dot Files by jrw (Monk) on Sep 13, 2013 at 18:41 UTC
The correct form of this glob pattern is really `{.[!.],.??,}`. Unfortunately, that has bugs in perl 5.8.8, although it works on 5.14 and 5.16. So, the actual best practice may be to avoid glob altogether and open a dirhandle yourself and read/filter the file names you get back.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: File::Glob Ignores Dot Files by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Dec 30, 2013 at 20:22 UTC
Nowadays I’d just use Path::Tiny and do `path($to_dir)->children`. It excludes `.` and `..` automatically, which is a great default. It also spits out Path::Tiny objects full of useful convenience methods, rather than just strings, which help make code much less grubby. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply] [d/l]

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