PHP command line interface passing in multiple files

Question

I'm familiar with the basic of CLI and $argv array with php. Example:

<?php // test.php
var_dump($argv);
?>

$php test.php datafile.txt 10 100

will produce:

array(4) {
  [0]=>
  string(8) "test.php"
  [1]=>
  string(12) "datafile.txt"
  [2]=>
  string(2) "10"
  [3]=>
  string(3) "100"
}

What I'm trying to do is pass all files in a directory *.txt to php. Is there way I can do $php test.php *.txt and have all the filenames stored in an array?

Edit: for the solution I just use the glob function

<?php
$files = glob($argv[1]);

?>

Yacoby · Accepted Answer · 2010-01-27 22:47:23Z

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Take a look at the glob function. I assume you would just call it for every argument, using the argument as the parameter and merge the resultant arrays using array merge.

answered Jan 27, 2010 at 22:47

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Yada Over a year ago

I'll look into glob. It's looks like a possible solution

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