I had heard in the past that ActiveState's distribution had a quirky glob, it that it would only return the correct values for "*.*" instead of "*", but I have just run a test on a NT box and this is what I got...
Orders, Sir? cd \usr\local

Orders, Sir? ls -la
total 0
-d----         0  3-Mar-100 03:28 .
-d----         0  3-Mar-100 03:28 ..
-d----         0  3-Mar-100 03:29 apache
-d----         0 15-Apr-100 21:37 bin
-d----         0  7-Dec-99 03:34 cgi-bin
-d----         0  6-Dec-99 21:58 ftpd
ad----         0 24-Feb-100 18:24 httpd
-d----         0  7-Dec-99 02:19 iissamples
-d----         0 22-Apr-100 22:45 mysql
-d----         0  6-Dec-99 21:58 scripts
-d----         0  7-Dec-99 21:11 uia

Orders, Sir? perl
foreach (glob("*")) {
  print ++$x.". $_\n";
}
^Z
1. apache
2. bin
3. cgi-bin
4. ftpd
5. httpd
6. iissamples
7. mysql
8. scripts
9. uia

Orders, Sir?

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Apart from the current directory and the parent directory, everything got listed, exactly as it would on a real system. (and I know the contents of \usr\local don't look too much like an NT box, but beleive me! It is! I just don't like the stuff that ships with NT)

In reply to RE: Re: file with a blank in its name by BBQ
in thread file with a blank in its name by Anonymous Monk

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