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MS Windows

2012


Perl, Wildcards and the Windows Command Line

·1 min

When developing for multiple platforms, its always the little things that catch you out.

Heres one example I found while developing gcal, a Command Line Interface to Google Calendar. On Unix (including Mac OS X shells) wildcard expansion is done by the shell, and then the expanded list of files is passed on to the program being run. On Windows, the shell doesn’t do any expansion, and it’s up to programs to do the expansion1.

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