[Chapter 8] 8.72 File::DosGlob

8.72 File::DosGlob

Provides a portable enhanced DOS-like globbing for the standard Perl distribution. DosGlob lets you use wildcards in directory paths, is case-insensitive, and accepts both backslashes and forward slashes (although you may have to double the backslashes). Can be run three ways:

• From a Perl script:

  require 5.004
  use File::DosGlob 'glob';
  
  @perlfiles = glob  "..\pe?l/*.p?";
  print <..\pe?l/*.p?>;

• With the perl command, on the command line:

  # from the command line (overrides only in main::)
  % perl -MFile::DosGlob=glob -e "print <../pe*/*p?>"

• With the perlglob.bat program on the DOS command line:

  % perlglob ../pe*/*p?

When invoked as a program from the command line, File::DosGlob prints null-separated filenames to STDOUT.