Re: [Raku] Asterisk on DOS command line

Thanks LanX, jcb, and Discipulus for a useful discussion. I also found:

https://github.com/Raku/problem-solving/issues/20

https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/issues/2005

which I’ve only skimmed, but which appear to show that this is a known issue in Raku: I think it’s still to be resolved.

Cheers,

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Re^2: [Raku] Asterisk on DOS command line by LanX (Saint) on Feb 11, 2021 at 13:52 UTC
Sorry, but the best answer seems to be: avoid cmd.exe as a shell. Raku seems to attempt to compensate the shortcomings of cmd, but this can never fully succeed, since cmd does it's own expansions for instance environment vars inside `%` are expanded, no matter if quoted or not `D:\tmp\pm>perl -e"print '%OS%'" Windows_NT D:\tmp\pm>` [download] And even if Raku succeeds in better compensating cmd-shell, I sincerely hope this is not globally so on Win and deactivated for other SHELLs. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^2: [Raku] Asterisk on DOS command line
by LanX (Saint) on Feb 11, 2021 at 13:52 UTC

Raku seems to attempt to compensate the shortcomings of cmd, but this can never fully succeed, since cmd does it's own expansions

for instance environment vars inside % are expanded, no matter if quoted or not

D:\tmp\pm>perl -e"print '%OS%'"
Windows_NT
D:\tmp\pm>
[download]

And even if Raku succeeds in better compensating cmd-shell, I sincerely hope this is not globally so on Win and deactivated for other SHELLs.

Cheers Rolf
_{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)

Wikisyntax for the Monastery}