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polettix
While I understand playing on one's strenghts, I think you're using the wrong tool for the job. Perl is quite good at playing with text, so I don't fully understand your insistence upon using shell expansions. Apart from lack of knowledge of better tools, maybe :)
<p>I'd suggest you to take a look to [dist://File::Find::Rule]. Your problem can be solved quite easily:<c>
#!/usr/bin/env perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use File::Find::Rule;
my $pattern = qr/
\A gcc # start with "gcc"
- # first separating hyphen
[^-]+ # first sequence of non-hyphen
- # second - also last - separating hyphen
[^-]+ # second sequence of non-hypen
\.rpm \z # end with ".rpm"
/mxs;
my @files = File::Find::Rule->file()->name($pattern)->maxdepth(1)->in('.');
print "files: [@files]\n";
</c>
No shell expansion quoting headaches, no process spawning, comments in your pattern... and it even works!
<c>
poletti@PolettiX:~/sviluppo/perl/testdir$ ls
findit.pl
gcc-32bit-4.2-24.x86_64.rpm
gcc41-32bit-4.1.3_20070724-15.x86_64.rpm
gcc41-4.1.3_20070724-15.x86_64.rpm
gcc41-ada-4.1.3_20070724-15.x86_64.rpm
gcc41-c++-4.1.3_20070724-15.x86_64.rpm
gcc41-fortran-32bit-4.1.3_20070724-15.x86_64.rpm
gcc41-fortran-4.1.3_20070724-15.x86_64.rpm
gcc41-gij-32bit-4.1.3_20070724-25.x86_64.rpm
gcc41-gij-4.1.3_20070724-25.x86_64.rpm
gcc41-java-4.1.3_20070724-15.x86_64.rpm
gcc41-locale-4.1.3_20070724-15.x86_64.rpm
gcc41-objc-32bit-4.1.3_20070724-15.x86_64.rpm
gcc41-obj-c++-4.1.3_20070724-15.x86_64.rpm
gcc41-objc-4.1.3_20070724-15.x86_64.rpm
gcc41-testresults-4.1.3_20070724-25.x86_64.rpm
gcc-4.2-24.x86_64.rpm
gcc42-32bit-4.2.1_20070724-17.x86_64.rpm
gcc42-4.2.1_20070724-17.x86_64.rpm
gcc42-ada-4.2.1_20070724-17.x86_64.rpm
gcc42-c++-4.2.1_20070724-17.x86_64.rpm
gcc42-fortran-32bit-4.2.1_20070724-17.x86_64.rpm
gcc42-fortran-4.2.1_20070724-17.x86_64.rpm
gcc42-gij-32bit-4.2.1_20070724-26.x86_64.rpm
gcc42-gij-4.2.1_20070724-26.x86_64.rpm
gcc42-info-4.2.1_20070724-17.x86_64.rpm
gcc42-java-4.2.1_20070724-17.x86_64.rpm
gcc42-locale-4.2.1_20070724-17.x86_64.rpm
gcc42-objc-32bit-4.2.1_20070724-17.x86_64.rpm
gcc42-obj-c++-4.2.1_20070724-17.x86_64.rpm
gcc42-objc-4.2.1_20070724-17.x86_64.rpm
gcc42-testresults-4.2.1_20070724-26.x86_64.rpm
gcc-ada-4.2-24.x86_64.rpm
gcc-c++-4.2-24.x86_64.rpm
gcc-fortran-32bit-4.2-24.x86_64.rpm
gcc-fortran-4.2-24.x86_64.rpm
gcc-gij-32bit-4.2-24.x86_64.rpm
gcc-gij-4.2-24.x86_64.rpm
gcc-info-4.2-24.x86_64.rpm
gcc-java-4.2-24.x86_64.rpm
gcc-locale-4.2-24.x86_64.rpm
gcc-objc-32bit-4.2-24.x86_64.rpm
gcc-obj-c++-4.2-24.x86_64.rpm
gcc-objc-4.2-24.x86_64.rpm
poletti@PolettiX:~/sviluppo/perl/testdir$ perl findit.pl
files: [gcc-4.2-24.x86_64.rpm]
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<p align=right>Hey! Up to Dec 16, 2007 I was named [frodo72], take note of the change! Flavio <br />
perl -ple'$_=reverse' <<<ti.xittelop@oivalf</p>
<i>Io ho capito... ma tu che hai detto?</i>
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