Re: glob(pattern)

[Ben Abbott]

On Feb 16, 2010, at 1:00 AM, Aditya Bhagwat wrote:

> Dear Ben,
> 
>> Did you try  ...
>> 
>>    glob ('.*')
>> 
>> Ben
> 
> Yep, I did. In fact, that's what isn't working (or not the "regexp"-way I
> would expect it to).
> 
> Greetz,
> 
> Adi

It works for me ...

octave:1> glob ('.*')
ans =

{
  [1,1] = .
  [2,1] = ..
  [3,1] = .CCP4
  [4,1] = .CFUserTextEncoding
  [5,1] = .DS_Store
  [6,1] = .FontForge
  [7,1] = .ICEauthority
  [8,1] = .Phynchronicity2.1.rc
  [9,1] = .Rhistory
  [10,1] = .TeXmacs
  [11,1] = .Trash
  [12,1] = .Xauthority
  [13,1] = .Xcode
  [14,1] = .Xresources
  [15,1] = .abbrev_defs
  [16,1] = .bash_history
  [17,1] = .bashrc
  [18,1] = .config
  [19,1] = .coot-preferences
  [20,1] = .cups
  [21,1] = .cvsignore
  [22,1] = .cvspass
  [23,1] = .ddd
  [24,1] = .designer
  [25,1] = .dvdcss
  [26,1] = .emacs
  [27,1] = .emacs.d
  [28,1] = .fontconfig
  [29,1] = .fonts.cache-1
  [30,1] = .gconf
  [31,1] = .gconfd
  [32,1] = .gdb_history
  [33,1] = .gegl-0.0
  [34,1] = .ghvyrpyrc
  [35,1] = .gimp-2.0
  [36,1] = .gimp-2.6
  [37,1] = .gitk
  [38,1] = .gnome2
  [39,1] = .gnome2_private
  [40,1] = .gnuplot-wxt
  [41,1] = .gnuplot_history
  [42,1] = .hgk
  [43,1] = .hgrc
  [44,1] = .kde
  [45,1] = .lesshst
  [46,1] = .local
  [47,1] = .matlab
  [48,1] = .mime.types
  [49,1] = .nedit
  [50,1] = .octave_hist
  [51,1] = .octave_packages
  [52,1] = .octaverc
  [53,1] = .pdfsam
  [54,1] = .profile
  [55,1] = .qt
  [56,1] = .qtoctave
  [57,1] = .qucs
  [58,1] = .recently-used
  [59,1] = .recently-used.xbel
  [60,1] = .scribus
  [61,1] = .serverauth.1046
  [62,1] = .serverauth.132
  [63,1] = .serverauth.1349
  [64,1] = .serverauth.135
  [65,1] = .serverauth.1561
  [66,1] = .serverauth.17034
  [67,1] = .serverauth.1839
  [68,1] = .serverauth.198
  [69,1] = .serverauth.205
  [70,1] = .serverauth.2054
  [71,1] = .serverauth.207
  [72,1] = .serverauth.2086
  [73,1] = .serverauth.211
  [74,1] = .serverauth.2118
  [75,1] = .serverauth.26996
  [76,1] = .serverauth.297
  [77,1] = .serverauth.30693
  [78,1] = .serverauth.3377
  [79,1] = .serverauth.437
  [80,1] = .serverauth.46101
  [81,1] = .serverauth.4811
  [82,1] = .serverauth.504
  [83,1] = .serverauth.516
  [84,1] = .serverauth.521
  [85,1] = .serverauth.53919
  [86,1] = .serverauth.55722
  [87,1] = .serverauth.5589
  [88,1] = .serverauth.57616
  [89,1] = .serverauth.59589
  [90,1] = .serverauth.61353
  [91,1] = .serverauth.6899
  [92,1] = .serverauth.690
  [93,1] = .serverauth.6949
  [94,1] = .serverauth.733
  [95,1] = .serverauth.743
  [96,1] = .serverauth.7945
  [97,1] = .serverauth.81597
  [98,1] = .serverauth.868
  [99,1] = .serverauth.8950
  [100,1] = .serverauth.89764
  [101,1] = .serverauth.927
  [102,1] = .serverauth.941
  [103,1] = .serverauth.9592
  [104,1] = .sh_history
  [105,1] = .ssh
  [106,1] = .subversion
  [107,1] = .swp
  [108,1] = .texlive2008
  [109,1] = .texlive2009
  [110,1] = .thumbnails
  [111,1] = .tkcvs
  [112,1] = .tkcvs-picklists
  [113,1] = .tkcvs.bak
  [114,1] = .vim
  [115,1] = .viminfo
  [116,1] = .vimrc
  [117,1] = .wine
  [118,1] = .xfigrc
  [119,1] = .xmaximarc
}

What result did you get?

Ben