Task

Walk a given directory and print the names of files matching a given pattern.

(How is "pattern" defined? substring match? DOS pattern? BASH pattern? ZSH pattern? Perl regular expression?)


Note: This task is for non-recursive methods.   These tasks should read a single directory, not an entire directory tree.

Note: Please be careful when running any code presented here.



Related task

   Walk Directory Tree   (read entire directory tree). 


require "lfs"
directorypath = "." -- current working directory
for filename in lfs.dir(directorypath) do
    if filename:match("%.lua$") then -- "%." is an escaped ".", "$" is end of string
        print(filename)
    end
end