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This is one thing the C-shell (which was my shell for decades) got right.

% echo no*such*file

echo: No match.

Whereas in bash you can get used to this behaviour until it bites you. Luckily the tcsh usage has already given me the "finger memory" to use the quotes.

$ echo no*such*file

no*such*file



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