Time to time I find myself on a windows host trying to run a one-liner such as: 
perl -pi.bak "s/vanilla/strawberry/gi" *.txt *.doc

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And then Window's cmd shell passes along *.txt and *.doc to perl, and perl cannot find a file called *.txt or *.doc, only files like "flavors.txt" and "plants.doc".

In general I can't install modules on these systems, and don't have friendlier shells to choose from. So I will either copy & paste the full files names, or if there are too many, I'll add a BEGIN block to the one-liner, eg:

perl -pi.bak "BEGIN{@ARGV=map glob,@ARGV}s/vanilla/strawberry/gi" *.txt *.doc

Anyone want to golf? Less to type for the one liners, the better.

/me wishes there was a command-line switch to have the perl interpreter do the globbing for me.

In reply to Perl on windows, one-liners with wildcards/glob by Yary

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