Re: default/simple globbing

[Greg Wooledge]

On Thu, Nov 28, 2024 at 14:56:42 -0500, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
> As mentioned in a subsequent message, OP was using ls as an example;
> the actual context is generating filenames for a loop.
> 
> (In general, I wish people would stop trying to "simplify" their
> questions like this, but that's neither here nor there.)

Sounds quite familiar.

greg@remote:~$ cat ~greybot/factoids/b9
All examples given by the questioner will be broken, misleading, wrong, 
incomplete, and/or not representative of the actual question.

greg@remote:~$ cat ~greybot/factoids/b9.5
ESPECIALLY when the example is 'ls'.