Re: Shell hate (was Re: unzip hate)

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Peter da Silva wrote:
>
> "No, that one's a port of a VMS program, and it only does VMS style 
> wildcards."
>
VMS Perl tries to be helpful and do the shell expansion that you might 
expect. Usually this is helpful.
But if you do
perl something.pl "*wildcard*"
the quotes get sucked up by DCL so perl gets *wildcard* which it then 
procedes to glob expand.

• Peter da Silva 17:19 on 20 Feb 2007
  • Martin Ebourne 17:30 on 20 Feb 2007
    • Peter da Silva 17:44 on 20 Feb 2007
  • Andrew Black 20:33 on 20 Feb 2007
    • Peter da Silva 05:15 on 21 Feb 2007

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