Re^5: Listing URLs to stdout

And if you do then you get:

C:>perl -pe"s/^URL=|.*//s" *.url
Can't open *.url: Invalid argument.
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More to the point the real error is in assuming that the command line processor in windows will expand wild cards, it of course won't---that trick is a unix thing, useful, but unix...

--hsm

"Never try to teach a pig to sing...it wastes your time and it annoys the pig."

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Re^6: Listing URLs to stdout by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Jan 14, 2005 at 07:05 UTC
You have to prefix oneliners with `BEGIN{@ARGV=map glob,@ARGV}` on Windows. I thought it didn't need pointing out that the Windows commandline and shell design is braindead. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^7: Listing URLs to stdout by hsmyers (Canon) on Jan 14, 2005 at 15:42 UTC
You know, windows is so brain dead, that, that would make a good command line switch. Or maybe just build the equivalent into perl.exe for the poorer country cousins forced to make do. Update: The sum of this thread works nicely: `perl -pe"BEGIN{@ARGV=map glob,@ARGV}s/^URL=\|.//s" .url` --hsm "Never try to teach a pig to sing...it wastes your time and it annoys the pig."	[reply] [d/l]