This is a feature I miss in Julia. My solution has been to do

using PyCall
@pyimport glob
files=readall(glob.glob("*.txt"))

Cheers, Kevin

On Wednesday, February 19, 2014, Roger Herikstad <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi,
>  I'm a bit surprised that this doesn't work
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> julia> ;ls
> file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt file4.txt file5.txt
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> julia> ;ls *.txt
> file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt file4.txt file5.txt
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> julia> run(`ls *.txt`)
> ls: *.txt: No such file or directory
> ERROR: failed process: Process(`ls *.txt`, ProcessExited(1)) [1]
>  in pipeline_error at process.jl:476
>  in run at process.jl:453
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> How do I use wildcards in conjunction with run(`ls ..`)? I am trying get a
> list of files matching a certain pattern that I will then do some
> processing on. In other words, I would like to do something like this:
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> files = readall(`ls file*.txt`)
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