[Chicago-talk] shell expansion

[Walter Torres]

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> [mailto:chicago-talk-bounces at mail.pm.org]On Behalf Of Eric Bohlman
> Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 6:11 PM
> To: Chicago.pm chatter
> Subject: Re: [Chicago-talk] shell expansion

> What I do is set PERL5OPT to "-MWild" in my Windows environment, and 
> include the following module in \perl\lib:
> 
> # Wild.pm - emulate shell @ARGV expansion on shells that don't

> That way the program itself doesn't need to know whether it's
> running under a globbing (Unix) or non-globbing (Windows) shell.
> I picked this up from somewhere years ago, but I don't remember
> where.

   perldoc perlwin32

:)

Walter