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I've found that Perl works even better for this. my @allfiles = `ls /somedir/`; for my $file (@allfiles) { chomp $file; ... } Is a wonderful thing. It's not p

by jsight 15y ago

I've found that Perl works even better for this. my @allfiles = `ls /somedir/`; for my $file (@allfiles) { chomp $file; ... } Is a wonderful thing. It's not pretty Perl, but it's still better than Bash, IMO.

scott_s 15y ago
I think his point is that he can do the above directly from the command line.
raldi 15y ago
Dude. my @allfiles = glob '/somedir/*'; Now you properly report errors and you don't have to chomp.