glob Find pathnames matching a pattern arrayglob stringpattern intflags The glob function searches for all the pathnames matching pattern according to the rules used by the shell. No tilde expansion or parameter substitution is done. Returns an array containing the matched files/directories or &false; on error. This could result in the following output: funclist.txt size 44686 funcsummary.txt size 267625 quickref.txt size 137820 See also opendir, readdir and closedir, fnmatch and the unix manpage on glob(3) for flag names (as long as they are not documented here ).