Ash wildcard usability bug

[Lauri Kasanen]

> > On Mon, Oct 24, 2016, at 20:09, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> > > Note that they allow to consistently never do globbing on the
> > > redirect word.
> > >
> > > To me it looks like the best course of action.
> >
> > Surely we all agree that it's terrible usability to not expand it?
>
> It may be terrible, but it's conforming to POSIX. ;-)
>
> But in earnest, I think in most cases it is more convenient to use Tab
> completion rather than *.

Well, I did try to use tab completion: cat < *zip[TAB]

Of course it doesn't work. In my case, I had many files sharing a
prefix, but only one ending in *zip, so typing that was several
times faster than letter- tab, oh more letters, tab, oh, more
letters, tab, more....

- Lauri

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