Re catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/28.0โ€ฆ and earlier items in that thread, I wonder what would break if ./ was added to glob patterns starting with *
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@fanf Surely all these tools use "--" to indicate end of options explicitly so this can be safe. If you can't trust the glob, use "--"
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@dsilverstone One of several solutions, yes.
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@fanf Shell globs are hard, but I'm not sure "fixing" them with ./ would help stop people being confused. Just move confusion elsewhere.

Jul 23, 2014 ยท 9:41 AM UTC

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@dsilverstone I expect you are right :-)
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@dsilverstone I was vaguely thinking of using arguments starting / or ./ or ../ as a kind of filename type annotation...
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