If you want to stay in Julia, you can also use: filter(r".*\.txt",readdir())
Ivar kl. 12:06:44 UTC+1 onsdag 19. februar 2014 skrev Roger Herikstad følgende: > > Hi, > Thanks for the quick reply! I didn't occur to me that the shell was doing > the expansion in this case; thanks for clearing that up. I'll just go ahead > and use find for now; that works fine for my purpose. > > On Wednesday, February 19, 2014 7:00:11 PM UTC+8, Ivar Nesje wrote: >> >> Julia does not use a shell to expand commands when you input with >> backticks and `ls` does not match patterns. You can use run(`find . -d 1 >> -name *.txt`) to use a program that does not depend on the shell to do the >> pattern matching. >> >> See how echo * works to see that it is the shell who does the expansion, >> and not ls. >> >> Ivar >> >> kl. 11:27:22 UTC+1 onsdag 19. februar 2014 skrev Roger Herikstad følgende: >>> >>> Hi, >>> I'm a bit surprised that this doesn't work >>> >>> >>> _ _ _(_)_ | A fresh approach to technical computing >>> (_) | (_) (_) | Documentation: http://docs.julialang.org >>> _ _ _| |_ __ _ | Type "help()" to list help topics >>> | | | | | | |/ _` | | >>> | | |_| | | | (_| | | Version 0.2.0 (2013-11-16 23:44 UTC) >>> _/ |\__'_|_|_|\__'_| | Official http://julialang.org release >>> |__/ | x86_64-apple-darwin12.5.0 >>> >>> julia> ;ls >>> file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt file4.txt file5.txt >>> >>> julia> ;ls *.txt >>> file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt file4.txt file5.txt >>> >>> 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 >>> >>> >>> 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: >>> >>> files = readall(`ls file*.txt`) >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>
