in reply to bsd_glob returns non-existent files without GLOB_NOMAGIC

Your pattern has no special characters to trigger expansion, as soon as you add something like * or ? an empty list will be returned unless you activate the mentioned flags.

see File::Glob

  DB<121> use File::Glob 'bsd_glob'

  DB<122> bsd_glob("/tmp/noexist*")

  DB<123> bsd_glob("/tmp/noexist")
 => "/tmp/noexist"

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Cheers Rolf

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