khjayantasingh has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I want to Give a command line argument in a Perl script. 
display.pl....
#!/usr/bin/perl
print "@ARGV\n";

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################ I give a command line argument 
perl display.pl net/*/*

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But It gives an error... 
perl: No match.

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If i give argument like 
perl display.pl 'net/*/*' or perl display.pl "net/*/*"

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It is working find... but problem is I cannot use like this in my script.. So please tell me why this script is giving an error... and any means to make it work..

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Re: Command line argument Error..
by roboticus (Chancellor) on Jan 31, 2013 at 11:14 UTC

    khjayantasingh:

    It sounds like your command shell is mangling the arguments for you (most do in one way or another).

    Most shells will try to expand the argument list for you when they see a wildcard. Putting quotes around the arguments tells the shell to pass the argument to the script as written. Example:

    $ perl t.pl t*
t.100, t.100.md5, t.10.md5, t.pl

$ perl t.pl 't*'
t*

$ cat t.pl
use strict;
use warnings;

print join(", ", @ARGV),"\n";

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    In the first run, perl didn't get t*, the shell expanded t* to a list of all matching files and gave that list to the perl script. For the second run, I quoted the argument, so perl actually sees t*.

    I'd go further, but your question is somewhat difficult for me to interpret: "but problem is I cannot use like this in my script". I can't tell what's giving you a problem from this point. Care to elaborate?

    ...roboticus

    When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like your thumb.

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Re: Command line argument Error.. (shell)
by Anonymous Monk on Jan 31, 2013 at 11:10 UTC

    perl isn't giving that error, your shell is

    Try  ls net/*/* and you'll likely get the same message

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Re: Command line argument Error..
by vinoth.ree (Monsignor) on Jan 31, 2013 at 11:17 UTC
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