Because the Wintendo shell doesn't expand globs; it's up to the receiving program to do so if it wants to understand them. Your options are to get a real shell, or preprocess @ARGV.

if( $^O eq 'MSWin32' ) {
  @ARGV = map glob( $_ ), @ARGV;
}
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I recommend doing this in your for loop. Instead of:

for (@ARGV) { }
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Use:

for ( grep {-f $_} map{ glob($_) } @ARGV ) { }
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This will, in a cross-platform way, return a list of all files in the directory. If you need things that aren't files (like directories), you can drop the grep {-f $_} piece.

See glob, grep, and map for more.

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Hi,

use glob function for this.

use strict;
use warnings;
my $a = shift;
my @a = glob($a);
print @a;
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I tested the following code under windows NT using Activestate perl 5.8.7

perl -e "for (<$ARGV[0]>) { print \"$_\n\"}" file*
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chomp, push @files, `dir /b $_` for @ARGV;
# now *pl file*txt and whatever are interpolated
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perl -ne 'print' file*
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