I know cmd.exe and command.com do not do the command line globbing (pass the process the filemask instead of a list of files that match it), I know what to do with it (see my G.pm module.)

What I would like to know is what other shells do not do the globbing? I'd think 4NT doesn't do it, what others? What exactly will be in $ENV{COMSPEC} if you use that shell?

The reason I am asking is that I would like the G.pm to know whether the globbing was already done by the shell or not. Of course this can never be 100%, but anyway.

  Jenda

P.S.: I'd like to ask the Unixers to ignore this question. I do not want any "Unix vs. Windows" flame war. I only want responses from Windozers that use (or know of) something else than cmd.exe or command.com. Thanks.

In reply to Command line globbing under Win32 by Jenda

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