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How do I return absolute path names for files using Perl glob?

I have some Perl code which has file glob operation.

$file1 = @ARGV[0];
@res1 = glob "$file1*";

I want the whole absolute paths to be reflected when i glob the files, not just the file names which is the case currently in my code.

e.g. when I do glob "*.pdf" i need the absolute paths of the pdf files to be matched and returned to my array variable by glob.

I tried using module use File::Basename; but that seems to be used for parsing a file path into directory, file name , suffix.

How do I get this effect.

thanks,

-AD.

Solution

  • You want to use the core module Cwd to get the full path with respect to your current working directory.

    use Cwd;
@res1 = map { Cwd::abs_path($_) } glob "$file1*";