Fun with *

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <17247 at agate.BERKELEY.EDU> weemba at garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student) writes:
>And while you're at it, don't forget the problem of the lexicograph-
>ically first file being named "-f".

In a general-purpose shell script, one would want to use the -- option
list terminator to avoid this problem.  (Some systems still don't fully
support the UNIX command language syntax standard, though.)