pulling file names from your PC

JFarr has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello Monks. I need to be able to check if a file, which will change version names frequently, is in a directory, then I need to be able to grab that file name. I can't figure out how to do it. Help please.

For example, the file will be names something like Something_binaries-
+R5.23.0.0_patch_V5.0.29.0_DiffList.txt.

So I want to search a directory for*_patch_*_DiffList.txt, 
grab the file name and do whatever I need to do with it.
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Is there a way to do this? I'm assuming there is, but have not been able to find what I'm looking for. It help if you know what key words you need for your search lol.

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Re: pulling file names from your PC by john_oshea (Priest) on Jan 11, 2006 at 17:57 UTC
perldoc -f glob will do what you want (specified in full as www.perldoc.com doesn't seem to be responding for me at least...)	[reply]
Re^2: pulling file names from your PC by sh1tn (Priest) on Jan 11, 2006 at 18:07 UTC
You mean glob, i.e. http://perldoc.perl.org.	[reply]
Re^3: pulling file names from your PC by john_oshea (Priest) on Jan 11, 2006 at 18:12 UTC
Doh. Yes. Thanks. Ahem... Wanders off to re-read What shortcuts can I use for linking to other information? again...	[reply]
Re^2: pulling file names from your PC by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jan 11, 2006 at 18:27 UTC
www.perldoc.com has been down for a while. Use `[doc://XXXXX]`, and will link to the relevant keyword on perldoc.perl.org. For example, `[doc://glob]` gives glob.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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