[erlang-bugs] filelib:wildcard

[Bjorn Gustavsson]

Thanks for the bug report. It indeed seem to be a bug.

I've added it to my to-do and hope to correct it for the R12B release.

/Bjorn

Samuel Rivas <samuelrivas@REDACTED> writes:

> Hi,
> 
>   I'm getting strange results with filelib:wildcard/2 (tested in R11B-1 and
> R11B-5):
> 
> 3> filelib:wildcard("ebin/*.app", "/home/samuel/local/src/yaws").
> []
> 4> filelib:wildcard("*/*.app", "/home/samuel/local/src/yaws").
> ["ebin/yaws.app"]
> 
> 
>   If I move to Cwd it works as I expected (even though it is a symlink):
> 
> 8> cd("/home/samuel/local/src/yaws").
> /var/local/scratch/samuel/src/yaws-1.58
> ok
> 9> filelib:wildcard("ebin/*.app", "/home/samuel/local/src/yaws").
> ["ebin/yaws.app"]
> 
>   If this is a bug, a simple workaround is using filelib:wildcard/1 and
> filename:join/2 to build an absolute wildcard.
> 
>   Regards
> -- 
> 	Samuel
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Björn Gustavsson, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB