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in thread [Raku] Asterisk on DOS command line

> But the CMD shell apparently does strip some quotes

I don't have Raku so I tested against Perl.

Looks like only doublequotes are stripped if not escaped.

D:\tmp\pm>perl -e"print @ARGV" *
*
D:\tmp\pm>perl -e"print @ARGV" '*'
'*'
D:\tmp\pm>perl -e"print @ARGV" "'*'"
'*'
D:\tmp\pm>perl -e"print @ARGV" "*"
*
D:\tmp\pm>perl -e"print @ARGV" \*
\*
D:\tmp\pm>perl -e"print @ARGV" \"*\"
"*"
D:\tmp\pm>

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