Hi Monks

I have a perl script that accepts the following command line syntax in Linux:

./script.pl -file myfile.txt -file yourfile.txt -file ourfile.txt

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My code looks like this:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Getopt::Long qw (GetOptions);

my (@Files);

Getopt::Long::Configure("no_ignore_case", "prefix_pattern=(--|-|\/)");
GetOptions ("file=s@" => \@Files);
    
foreach (@Files) {
    #Do stuff with file
    print "$_\n";
}

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Prints: 
myfile.txt
yourfile.txt
ourfile.txt

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When I try and run the following command though, it only returns the first filename (myfile.txt).

./script.pl -file *.txt

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Why does this happen and how can I get my script to accept wild card characters?

In reply to Getopt Long and processing arrays from Linux shell by Scrat

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