Ash wildcard usability bug

[Lauri Kasanen]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2016, at 05:44, Kang-Che Sung wrote:
> I wonder why you can't implement an easy workaround using ls or
> something.
> 
>     filename="`ls *zip | head -n 1`"
>     nc 10.0.0.1 12345 < "$filename"
>     do_something_else < "$filename"
> 
> Yeah. Just avoid the glob on the redirection and instead get the
> filename before that. Any difficulty?

Because typing that takes longer? You're missing the point of an
usability feature.

- Lauri

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