Because of this I use 
BEGIN { @ARGV =  map glob, @ARGV}

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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

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as explained in details on this external site

L*

There are no rules, there are no thumbs..
Reinvent the wheel, then learn The Wheel; may be one day you reinvent one of THE WHEELS.

In reply to Re^2: Loading all .txt files within current directory by Discipulus
in thread Loading all .txt files within current directory by TJCooper

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