Why the angle brackets tye?

As you've probably noticed, I'm not tye. I hope you won't be so thoroughly dissappointed as to disregard my comments ;)

tye wrote the following:

system('cp',<source/*>,'dest/.') and die
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The angle brackets are what are known as a "filename globbing operator". Want all text files from the current directory?

my @test_files = <*.txt>;
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However, if you want to use this with variables, it's better to use the glob operator:

my @files = glob( $foo );
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Cheers,
Ovid

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Thank you kindly. I think I now have something to go read up on.

And no I was not too terribly disappointed.