OpenEuphoria

Re: dir() in linux

• Posted by jbrown105 at speedymail.org Oct 02, 2002
• 514 views

> 
> Jerry Story writes:
> > The Euphoria manual, under "dir", says:
> > "On Windows and DOS st can contain * and ? wildcards
> >  to select multiple files."
> 
> >   Does this mean dir() can't use wildcards on Linux?
> 
> That's right.
> On Windows and DOS, the C library provides
> this wildcard functionality. On Linux, 
> you'll have to write your own Euphoria code to filter out 
> the filenames that you want/don't want.
> Maybe someday I'll get around to enhancing dir on Linux/FreeBSD etc.
> 
> Regards,
>    Rob Craig
>    Rapid Deployment Software
>    http://www.RapidEuphoria.com
> 

I wrote a lindir() function which could use wildcards in the same
way that Windows and DOS does. Also it is able to return more
information
about file permissions for a file. (I cheated and used "ls" for this,
btw the wildcard expansion for /bin/ls is done by the shell, not by
/bin/ls itself.)

If anyone wants this function email me.

jbrown


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