I think that this is something specific to Windows, and MS-DOS. Other environments expect the command interpreter to glob out arguments. IIRC the POSIX standard defines this behaviour, so any operating system purporting to be POSIX compliant will exhibit this behaviour.

Anyway, why shouldn't the Win32 perl kernel resolve this anomaly and make Windows conform to the expected behaviour? (Perl 6? wishlist?)

By the by, VMS implements the globbing via the C runtime library. Command lines themselves are not globbed, but by the time they have become cast into (int argc, char *argv[]) they have been globbed.

My $0.02 --rW

In reply to Re: portable globbing behavior for command-line tool by rinceWind
in thread portable globbing behavior for command-line tool by seattlejohn

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