Since you reference dir I assume that you're running windows. If that is true then the answers are NO and YES. This isn't a Perl problem, it's a brain dead windows shell problem.

For example on Windows XP, 

  perl -e "print join(',', @ARGV)" *.*

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Yields: 

*.*

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On Linux, the sample command produces: 

argo.user.properties,.....more files....,tmp

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To do what you want to do, glob will probably help.

perl -e "print join(',', glob(shift))" *

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On windows this then produces: 
argo.users.properties,.....more files......,tmp

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Hope that helps

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OSUnderdog

In reply to Re: Command line multiple file input by osunderdog
in thread Command line multiple file input by K8VWO

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