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There is worse precedent (Score:1)

by Aristotle (5147) <pagaltzis@gmx.de> on 2009.06.08 10:51 (#68999) Homepage Journal

Most shells will invoke foo and pass a literal bar.* as the first argument if you run foo bar.* if nothing in the current directory matches bar.*. In bash since 2.something you can shopt -s failglob to prevent this.
But then the shell will also refuse to let you run foo bar.* baz.* if either bar.* or baz.* fail, when really you probably only wanted it to refuse if both fail. So basically you want the behaviour of shopt -s nullglob when there’s more than one glob.
Or at least, you want that behaviour most of the time.
Defaults: It’s Tricky To Get Them Right.

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