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FastGlob-1.6
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NAME

FastGlob - A faster glob() implementation

VERSION

version 1.6

SYNOPSIS

use FastGlob qw(glob);
my @list = glob('*.c');

DESCRIPTION

This module implements globbing in perl, rather than forking a csh. This is faster than the built-in glob() call, and more robust (on many platforms, csh chokes on echo * if too many files are in the directory.)

There are several module-local variables that control platform-specific behavior. On Windows ($^O eq 'MSWin32'), these are automatically set to appropriate values. On other platforms, UNIX defaults are used. You can override them after loading the module if needed.

# UNIX defaults (auto-detected):
$FastGlob::dirsep = '/';        # directory path separator
$FastGlob::rootpat = '\A\Z';    # root directory prefix pattern
$FastGlob::curdir = '.';        # name of current directory in dir
$FastGlob::parentdir = '..';    # name of parent directory in dir
$FastGlob::hidedotfiles = 1;    # hide filenames starting with .

# Windows defaults (auto-detected on MSWin32):
$FastGlob::dirsep = '\\';       # directory path separator
$FastGlob::rootpat = '[A-Za-z]:';  # <Drive letter><colon> pattern
$FastGlob::curdir = '.';        # name of current directory in dir
$FastGlob::parentdir = '..';    # name of parent directory in dir
$FastGlob::hidedotfiles = 1;    # hide filenames starting with .

For classic MacOS you would set:

$FastGlob::dirsep = ':';        # directory path separator
$FastGlob::rootpat = '\A\Z';    # root directory prefix pattern
$FastGlob::curdir = '.';        # name of current directory in dir
$FastGlob::parentdir = '..';    # name of parent directory in dir
$FastGlob::hidedotfiles = 0;    # hide filenames starting with .

Tilde expansion (~ and ~user) uses getpwuid/getpwnam on UNIX. On Windows, ~ falls back to $HOME or $USERPROFILE.

INSTALLATION

Copy this module to the Perl 5 Library directory.

AUTHOR

Marc Mengel <mengel@fnal.gov>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 1999 by Marc Mengel.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.