I’m on Windows 8.1, 64-bit, using a standard DOS command-prompt (i.e., cmd.exe):

17:27 >cmd.exe
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.3.9600]
(c) 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

17:27 >

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In Perl, I can pass an asterisk (star character, *) on the command-line with no problem:

17:27 >perl -wE "say join ' ', @ARGV;" abc * def
abc * def

17:29 >

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However, in Raku it gets expanded into a list of the files in the current directory:

17:29 >raku -e "say @*ARGS.join: ' ';" abc * def
abc ch-1.pl ch-1.raku ch-2.pl ch-2.raku Session.xml test.bat def

17:43 >

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So I have two questions:

  1. Is this documented? I’ve looked at https://docs.raku.org/language/create-cli but didn’t find the explanation I was looking for.
  2. Is there a way to turn off wildcard expansion when inputting * on the command line? I’ve tried prepending ^ and \, and putting the star into single and double quotes, but without success. Ideally, I’d like to change some setting in the Raku script itself, if there’s such an option.

For the record:

Thanks,

Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum Iustus alius egestas vitae, eros Piratica,

In reply to [Raku] Asterisk on DOS command line by Athanasius

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