NAME Win32::Autoglob -- expand globs in @ARGV when the shell doesn't SYNOPSIS In a Perl program: use Win32::Autoglob; foreach my $thing (@ARGV) { print "And also $thing\n"; } Or from the command line: perl -MWin32::Autoglob DESCRIPTION Normal MSWindows shells are exceptional in that they don't do globbing for you -- i.e., if you enter: C:\stuff> perl thing.pl whatever.bin *.txt thing.dat then thing.pl's @ARGV will consist of just `('whatever.bin', '*.txt', 'thing.dat')'. If you just add `use Win32::Autoglob;' in your program, this module will alter @ARGV by performing globbing. I.e., `'*.txt'' will be expanded to whatever *.txt matches, like `('whatever.bin', 'junk.txt', 'stuff.txt', 'thing.dat')' -- or if there are no *.txt files, you'll just get an @ARGV of `('whatever.bin', 'thing.dat')'. Under Cygwin or under anything but MSWin, this module has no effect, so you can use `use Win32::Autoglob;' in any program, and the globbing will happen only when it's running under MSWin (and not Cygwin, because Cygwin *does* do globbing). FUNCTIONS None. VARIABLES None. (But it can affect @ARGV.) THANKS Thanks to Citizen X and Dave Adler for help. HINT If you have a program called funkify.pl written for under Unix, consider putting it in a directory in your path, and just creating a funkify.bat along with it, consisting of just this: @echo off perl -MWin32::Autoglob -S funkify.pl %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9 COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS Copyright (c) 2002 Sean M. Burke. All rights reserved. This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. But let me know if it gives you any problems, OK? AUTHOR Sean M. Burke `sburke@cpan.org'