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Re: Using MinGW to build perl on windows forcing it to expand * into glob in cmd.exe

by LanX (Saint)
on Feb 14, 2021 at 16:45 UTC ( #11128366=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Using MinGW to build perl on windows forcing it to expand * into glob in cmd.exe

Thanks for the interesting read!

> Why not?

I hope this didn't suprise you much, otherwise I should have been clearer when I said

avoid cmd.exe as a shell

:)

FWIW, some problems are mitigated when you start Perl from PowerShell.

But in an ideal world we'd have a standard Perl CLI/shell/REPL which works consistently on all platforms.

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery

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Minor rewording and typo corrections

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