Re: file_exists and wildcard/regex
| From: | Per Jessen | Date: | Wed, 10 Dec 2008 07:42:48 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: file_exists and wildcard/regex | ||
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Ashley Sheridan wrote:
> If you're on a Linux system, you could look at ls and the regular
> expressions it lets you use with it. You could exec out and get the
> returned results. Also, as it's a system call, it should be very
> speedy.
'ls' is just a plain binary (/bin/ls), not a system call. The regex
functionality is part of the shell, usually bash.
/Per Jessen, Zürich