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Omitting DIR filenames with filespecs

S_Shrum
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Mar 20, 2001, 2:13 PM

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Omitting DIR filenames with filespecs	Can't Post

I have a directory that contains photos and thumbnails structured like:

photo1.jpg
~photo1.jpg

...where the ~filename is the thumbnail.

I want to do a directory listing minus all filenames that start with "~".

Sean Shrum
sean@shrum.net
www.shrum.net

japhy
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Mar 21, 2001, 7:08 AM

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Re: Omitting DIR filenames with filespecs [In reply to]	Can't Post

This is an excellent change to learn how to use regular expressions:

Code

opendir DIR, $path; 
@files = grep !/^~/, readdir DIR; 
closedir DIR;

That regex says "match a ~ as the first character" and the ! in front of it is the logical NOT operator which flips the value. Thus, if a file DOES have a leading tilde, the regex returns true, but the NOT value of that is false, and therefore, it doesn't pass through.

Jeff "japhy" Pinyan -- accomplished hacker, teacher, lecturer, and author

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