use Perl

• Whinedows (Score:2)

  by gnat (29)

  I always tweak the programs I install on Windows, adding a line before the main program action that says:

  @ARGV = map { glob } @ARGV;

  That tip was brought to you by the good folks at perlmonks [perlmonks.org].

  --Nat
  • Re:Whinedows (Score:1)

    by TorgoX (1933)

    Do you know if that's just a command.com thing, or does cmd.exe and/or Cygwin require that hack too?

    I note that glob() seems to use Unix globbing logic, not MSDOS globbing logic. I guess that's okay, even tho in theory one could type "*.[t-z]" and really mean all files ending in a literal ".[t-z]", as opposed to all files ending in a dot and any single letter t thru z.