[Chicago-talk] chown inside a script

[Jay Strauss]

Oh, ok.

Thanks

On Dec 5, 2007 3:58 PM, Andy Lester <andy at petdance.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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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