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Craig A. Berry <craig.a.berry <at> gmail.com> writes: >Do all shells have the same metacharacters? What if the CLI from >which Perl was invoked was not a Unix shell at all? It doesn't matter where perl was run from or what the user's preferred shell is; globbing always follows 'the csh rules', and where it still works by running an external process, that will be csh or some variant. But anyway, I think everyone is now in agreement that doing something wacky on glob patterns that contain shell metacharacters unrelated to globbing is to be considered a bug not a feature. -- Ed Avis <eda@waniasset.com>Thread Previous | Thread Next