Klee Dienes writes ("Bug#2240: Perl filename globbing fails silently without csh"): > Perl filename globbing fails silently if /bin/csh is not present. > [...] See my earlier bug report on this issue, #1247. Perl has no reason to use csh here, there's a perfectly good libc function that will do the right thing right in Perl and not require Perl to invoke subprocesses and things ... Ian.