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. Valid flags: GLOB_MARK - Adds a slash to each item returned GLOB_NOSORT - Return files as they appear in the directory (no sorting) GLOB_NOCHECK - Return the search pattern if no files matching it were found GLOB_NOESCAPE - Backslashes do not quote metacharacters GLOB_BRACE - Expands {a,b,c} to match 'a', 'b', or 'c' GLOB_ONLYDIR - Return only directory entries which match the pattern ]]> ¬e.no-remote; See also opendir, readdir and closedir, fnmatch.