Am Wed, 15 Mar 2017 21:41:41 +0000 (UTC)
schrieb Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com>:

> On 2017-03-15, Kai Krakow <hurikha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Especially people coming from Windows or DOS have problems with this
> > feature. In the MS world, globbing expansion is done by the command
> > itself: it will see the * literally in the parameters.  
> 
> Well, technically, that depends on what shell you're running.  That's
> true with the command.com and cmd.exe shells.  It's not true with some
> others.
> 
> When back when I ran DOS (and when I run Windows), the globbing is
> done by the shell: the way god intended.  ;)

Hell yeah! :-)

Tho I'd expect that globbing done by the shell won't play well with
most traditional DOS commands. I guess those shells also brought their
own built-in commands?

-- 
Regards,
Kai

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