> perl -e 'print "result: <",glob("*.txt"),">\n";' result: <> > perl -e 'print "result: <",glob("xx.txt"),">\n";' result: > dir > x.txt > perl -e 'print "result: <",glob("x.txt"),">\n";' result: > perl -e 'print "result: <",glob("*.txt"),">\n";' result: > perl -e 'print "result: <",glob("xx.txt"),">\n";' result: > dir xx.txt xx.txt: No such file or directory