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2005-07-06
Not really. The problem with globing being in the shell is that application never get a chance to pre-process their command line arguments before the shell expands them. At least if the globing were somewhere both the shell and the application could access it and control it's behavour, commands such as "mv *.foo *.bar" would actually have a chance of working.
Edited 2006-03-20 10:30