glob expands * but you have to give it full paths 
$ pwd
C:\strawberry\c

$ perl -le"print for glob shift" *
bin
contrib
COPYING
COPYING.LIB
doc
include
lib
libexec
mingw32
share

$ perl -le"print for glob shift" C:/strawberry/c/*
C:/strawberry/c/bin
C:/strawberry/c/contrib
C:/strawberry/c/COPYING
C:/strawberry/c/COPYING.LIB
C:/strawberry/c/doc
C:/strawberry/c/include
C:/strawberry/c/lib
C:/strawberry/c/libexec
C:/strawberry/c/mingw32
C:/strawberry/c/share

$ perl -le"print for glob shift" C:/strawberry/c/*/info/*
C:/strawberry/c/share/info/dir
C:/strawberry/c/share/info/make.info
C:/strawberry/c/share/info/make.info-1
C:/strawberry/c/share/info/make.info-2

$

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Be careful to use forward slashes. For full caveats see 'perldoc -f glob' and File::Glob.

In reply to Re: glob: where are the full paths? by Anonymous Monk
in thread glob: where are the full paths? by 7stud

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