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 `
[email protected]'
