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FAQ 5.14 How can I translate tildes (~) in a filename? PerlFAQ Server 06-08-2008
Posted by PerlFAQ Server on June 8, 2008, 3:03 am
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5.14: How can I translate tildes (~) in a filename?


Use the <> (glob()) operator, documented in perlfunc. Older versions of
Perl require that you have a shell installed that groks tildes. Recent
perl versions have this feature built in. The File::KGlob module
(available from CPAN) gives more portable glob functionality.

Within Perl, you may use this directly:

$filename =~ s{
^ ~ # find a leading tilde
( # save this in $1
[^/] # a non-slash character
* # repeated 0 or more times (0 means me)
)
}{
$1
? (getpwnam($1))[7]
: ( $ENV || $ENV )
}ex;



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Posted by Michael Carman on June 8, 2008, 10:19 am
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 PerlFAQ Server wrote:
> Older versions of Perl require that you have a shell installed that
> groks tildes. Recent perl versions have this feature built in.

Can anyone here quantify "older" and "recent?"

-mjc

Posted by Peter J. Holzer on June 8, 2008, 10:46 am
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> PerlFAQ Server wrote:
>> Older versions of Perl require that you have a shell installed that
>> groks tildes. Recent perl versions have this feature built in.
>
> Can anyone here quantify "older" and "recent?"

I *think* this was changed in perl 5.6.0.

        hp

Posted by Ben Morrow on June 8, 2008, 6:07 pm
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> > PerlFAQ Server wrote:
> >> Older versions of Perl require that you have a shell installed that
> >> groks tildes. Recent perl versions have this feature built in.
> >
> > Can anyone here quantify "older" and "recent?"
>
> I *think* this was changed in perl 5.6.0.

So does perldoc File::Glob, and git://utsl.gen.nz/perl says that
5.005_04 still called csh (or other things, on other platforms).

Ben

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Posted by brian d foy on June 10, 2008, 12:00 pm
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> PerlFAQ Server wrote:
> > Older versions of Perl require that you have a shell installed that
> > groks tildes. Recent perl versions have this feature built in.
>
> Can anyone here quantify "older" and "recent?"

Thanks for pointed this out. I've noticed too much of the FAQ assumes
that you're reading it the same day it was written, so any references
to timeliness need to go away. :0

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