Bug #124539 for Perl-Dist-Strawberry: Wildcard Characters on Command Line Don't Work

Thu Feb 22 15:41:36 2018 bill_chatfield [...] yahoo.com - Ticket created

Subject:	Wildcard Characters on Command Line Don't Work
Date:	Thu, 22 Feb 2018 20:41:25 +0000 (UTC)
To:	"bug-Perl-Dist-Strawberry [...] rt.cpan.org" <bug-Perl-Dist-Strawberry [...] rt.cpan.org>
From:	Bill Chatfield <bill_chatfield [...] yahoo.com>

The following command should list all the files in the current directory, but it just displays the unresolved pattern. C:\Strawberry\perl\bin>perl -e "print join(qq(\n), @ARGV)" *.* *.* This is the way is is supposed to work, running on Windows under MSys: Bill.Chatfield@LOH001PC0JTPRQ MINGW64 /c/Strawberry/perl/bin $ perl -e "print join(qq(\n), @ARGV)" *.* bdf2gdfont.bat bdf2gdfont.pl chartex.bat config_data.bat ... On Windows it is the responsibility of the application, rather than the shell, to resolve wildcards. I know this functionality is not in Strawberry Perl because the code is ported from UNIX where it is expected that the shell will do it. But a Windows user is going to expect Perl to do this if it is running on Windows. In other words, if Perl is running on Windows it should behave like a Windows application. I know I can easily write a line or two of code in Perl to work around this problem. But, part of the appeal of Perl is that one can write a minimal amount of code to get things done. I don't want to have to add that piece of code to every script I write. It's just one more thing I have to remember to do every time. Also, I want my code to work on both Windows and Linux/Mac. So if I add code to every script to handle the wildcards, I then also have to add code to detect Windows and only run the wildcard handling when the script is running on Windows. That is a chunk of extra code that is going to end up being longer than some of my scripts. It kind of goes against why I use Perl. Anyway, that is why I think it is a bug. Thanks. ----------------------- System details: Windows 10 C:\Strawberry\perl\bin>perl -v This is perl 5, version 26, subversion 1 (v5.26.1) built for MSWin32-x64-multi-thread

Mon Jul 09 04:53:41 2018 kmx [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

I am afraid that this is simply a feature. If you want a change you'd rather discuss it in p5p mailing list - https://lists.perl.org/list/perl5-porters.html

On Thu Feb 22 15:41:36 2018, bill_chatfield@yahoo.com wrote:
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> The following command should list all the files in the current
> directory, but it just displays the unresolved pattern.
>
> C:\Strawberry\perl\bin>perl -e "print join(qq(\n), @ARGV)" *.*
> *.*
> This is the way is is supposed to work, running on Windows under MSys:
> Bill.Chatfield@LOH001PC0JTPRQ MINGW64 /c/Strawberry/perl/bin
> $ perl -e "print join(qq(\n), @ARGV)" *.*
> bdf2gdfont.bat
> bdf2gdfont.pl
> chartex.bat
> config_data.bat
> ...
>
> On Windows it is the responsibility of the application, rather than
> the shell, to resolve wildcards. I know this functionality is not in
> Strawberry Perl because the code is ported from UNIX where it is
> expected that the shell will do it. But a Windows user is going to
> expect Perl to do this if it is running on Windows. In other words, if
> Perl is running on Windows it should behave like a Windows
> application.
> I know I can easily write a line or two of code in Perl to work around
> this problem. But, part of the appeal of Perl is that one can write a
> minimal amount of code to get things done. I don't want to have to add
> that piece of code to every script I write. It's just one more thing I
> have to remember to do every time.
> Also, I want my code to work on both Windows and Linux/Mac. So if I
> add code to every script to handle the wildcards, I then also have to
> add code to detect Windows and only run the wildcard handling when the
> script is running on Windows. That is a chunk of extra code that is
> going to end up being longer than some of my scripts. It kind of goes
> against why I use Perl.
>
> Anyway, that is why I think it is a bug. Thanks.
>
> -----------------------
> System details:
> Windows 10
> C:\Strawberry\perl\bin>perl -v
>
> This is perl 5, version 26, subversion 1 (v5.26.1) built for MSWin32-
> x64-multi-thread

Mon Jul 09 04:53:42 2018 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Mon Jul 09 04:53:42 2018 kmx [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'