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in reply to Re: using wildcard character * in perlscript command line
in thread using wildcard character * in perlscript command line

foreach my $arg (@ARGV) {
  foreach (glob $arg) {
    print;
  }
}

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(Nah!) Since wildcard expansion "should" happen before the args are passed to the script, I like to do it all at once as early as possible: 
BEGIN {@ARGV=map glob, @ARGV}

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And then the rest of code can plainly ignore what happened with no need of ad hoc interventions...

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