That'll be the old globbing thing then :-) Weirdly however it doesn't work either if you supply a valid filename instead of '*' - of course if you change the quotes to double ones it works fine. An illustration of the cranky nature of cmd.exe

/J\

Actually,

perl -ne "print;" runme.bat

worked for me. I just don't think globbing works at all. *.* didn't work either. Who knows. In my own limited experience, except for doing basic stuff like running perl script directly, cmd.exe is about useless for Perl. It's just too much of a pain to figure out all the little quoting quirks.

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