On 8/14/07, Andy Armstrong <a...@hexten.net> wrote: > On 14 Aug 2007, at 16:17, demerphq wrote: > > Hah!, so there is something the win32 shell does better than *nixy > > ones. I knew there had to be something. :-) > > Does cmd.exe actually do wildcard expansion? I though programs had to > do that for themselves.
Thats the whole point. By doing it themselves there is no danger of having an argument list too long because of trying to operate on an overly long directory. yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"