why not glob

[Boldra]

I don't know why I see glob so rarely recommended in the monastary. I understand earlier perl versions had some problems on some OSs, but it's fine now (isn't it?)

 my @folders = glob('//pcname-vm/c$/program files/adobe/*');

Looks much cleaner, doesn't it? And probably you weren't interested in all of the files in the adobe directory anyway.

I do a bit of this sort of work, here are some other things that might be interesting:

• 'c:/program files' is language dependant. eg here in Germany it's 'c:/programme'
• Win32::TieRegistry works across networks, you might find it easier and quicker, particularly for finding versions of installed software.
• This kind of task is called 'software inventory'. There are commercial products available.

UPdate: correction in code

[Anonymous Monk]

For directories only you want

grep -d, glob ...

I don't use glob because it has its own syntaxt and quirks, I find this much clearer to use File::Find::Rule with regex

#!/usr/bin/perl --

use strict;
use warnings;

use File::Find::Rule;

my $dir = '//pcnamevm/c$/program files/adobe/';
$dir = 'C:/program files/Mozilla Firefox/';

my @folders = File::Find::Rule->directory->maxdepth(1)->in($dir);

use DDS;
Dump \@folders;

__END__
$ARRAY1 = [
            'C:/program files/Mozilla Firefox',
            'C:/program files/Mozilla Firefox/chrome',
            'C:/program files/Mozilla Firefox/components',
            'C:/program files/Mozilla Firefox/defaults',
            'C:/program files/Mozilla Firefox/dictionaries',
            'C:/program files/Mozilla Firefox/extensions',
            'C:/program files/Mozilla Firefox/greprefs',
            'C:/program files/Mozilla Firefox/modules',
            'C:/program files/Mozilla Firefox/plugins',
            'C:/program files/Mozilla Firefox/res',
            'C:/program files/Mozilla Firefox/searchplugins',
            'C:/program files/Mozilla Firefox/uninstall'
          ];

[toolic]

One difference between glob and File::Find::Rule is that the latter also returns the parent directory ('C:/program files/Mozilla Firefox', in your example). It seems the OP does not want that.

[Anonymous Monk]

I think that is a bug :D