is fedora really bleeding edge?

[Joe Zeff]

On 03/05/2012 01:12 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
>
> Yes, a state of confusion was entered. Others on the list have explained
> to me --- the though of the shell processing the command and it needing
> bash syntax to work never entered my mind.

It's not intuitively obvious to most people that the shell expands all 
wildcards before passing the command line to the program unless they're 
escaped or quoted.  Generally, it takes butting your head against it 
once or twice to make it sink in.