It always bothered me that cmd-shell doesn't do a glob expansion of * like the bash does. (I.e. before passing the parameters, e.g. try echo * )

My guess is that Raku is compensating this to allow more symmetry between the platforms.

> I’ve tried prepending ^ and \, and putting the star into single and double quotes, but without success.

Looks like a bug to me.

HTH!