[Chicago-talk] chown inside a script

[Andy Lester]

>
> I've tried various incantations of the wildcard but none work.  Is
> there some sort of quoting I should be using to make this work, or
> some other secret?

The shell is what does the globbing, but you're not calling the  
shell.  You're calling chown directly.


> I'd rather use a wildcard than globing a list of files to iterate  
> over.


You don't need to iterate.  Pass all the filenames as arguments to  
system().

system( 'chown', 'whoever', glob( '/home/blah/blah/whatever*' ) );



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