in reply to Re: Loading all .txt files within current directory
in thread Loading all .txt files within current directory

Because of this I use
BEGIN { @ARGV = map glob, @ARGV}
or some variations of it in oneliners and rarely in scripts too. The result is more portable: using the perl glob instead of that offered by the shell. That said windows cmd is totally unreliable, infact * expansions works as expected but within few commands only:
Wildcards are supported by the following commands: ATTRIB, CACLS, CIPER, COMPACT, COPY, DEL, DIR, EXPAND, EXTRACT, FIND, +FINDSTR, FOR, FORFILES, FTP, ICACLS, IF EXIST, MORE, MOVE, MV, NET (* +=Any Drive), PERMS, PRINT, QGREP, REN, REPLACE, ROBOCOPY, ROUTE, TAKE +OWN, TYPE, WHERE, XCACLS, XCOPY

as explained in details on this external site

L*

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