(Appologies if this doesn't get associated with the right thread, since it's 
not a "reply". I just wanted to add 2 cents..)

I also wanted to say I agree with David's view... it's annoying having to quote 
globbing rules in scp etc. There was a time when I didn't really value this.. 
but recently I've been been bumping into this a lot more often with things like:
scp server:path/file*
find . -name somefile*.ext

At which point -- I'm sure you get the idea. So, the options I see:

1.  keep as is
2.  configuration option -- but as Michael points out: "Configurability is the 
root of all evil" (well... not ideal at least)
3.  'noglob' command... not a lot better
4.  Only expand globbing patterns when valid (as in bash)

Does anyone have anything to say against option 4? Sure, error messages from 
commands like 'ls file*' are going to change from:

fish: Warning: No match for wildcard “file*”. The command will not be executed.
ls file*
   ^

to:

ls: cannot access file*: No such file or directory

but I don't see why this should be a big deal. Or are there some important 
cases I've missed, where this is a bigger deal?

Diggory

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