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On 07/27/2014 06:44 PM, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: > * Abigail <abigail@abigail.be> [2014-07-27 20:00]: > > But with the diamond operator (and constructs which implicitly use it), > you cannot. There is no switch you can pass or alternative you can use > to say “I want all of these treated as filenames, regardless of what > they look like”, like you can with filenames vs switches. You have no > way to avoid the semi-predicate problem of the diamond operator other > than avoiding its use entirely. at oscon last week, damian showed a perl6 (and perl5 version) of a rename script. the example one liner he showed had * in it but he did globbing on that inside the script. afterwards both merlyn and myself asked the same question, why didn't the shell glob first? damian said he put a noglob command in an alias to call his script. not saying this is a solution to no magic but it doesn't force the arguments (after options) to be files and not globbed for you. uri -- Uri Guttman - The Perl Hunter The Best Perl Jobs, The Best Perl Hackers http://PerlHunter.comThread Previous | Thread Next