In order to compose an answer to Private Utilities i was am about to rewrite a Windows™ only script named ncopy to be platform compatible. With that script I can do stuff like 
c:\> ncopy \foo\bar\*.txt \-1\0N.dat\-2\file.dat

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which copies
foo\bar\baz.txt to \bar\baz\foo\file.dat
and
foo\bar\xxx.txt to \bar\xxx\foo\file.dat.

Now, how do I handle the "*.txt" cross platform? Under Linux'n'stuff I get a list of files, under Windows I get the string and must glob mysyelf. MacOs? Be? ...? What's common practice?

Update:
Thanks @ll, for the suggestions so far. I've ended up using Win32::Wildcard and this is the outcome.


holli, /regexed monk/

2005-12-01 Retitled by broquaint, as per Monastery guidelines
Original title: 'writing portable file processing scripts that use placeholders in filenames'

In reply to writing portable file processing scripts that use wildcards in filenames by holli

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