I find that syntax "good enough" for my own usage. YMMV when considering it outputting not just files with txt as extension, but also somewhere on its name. So

I find that syntax "good enough" for my own usage. YMMV when considering it outputting not just files with txt as extension, but also somewhere on its name. Someone else mentioned a workaround by adding the escaped dot in order to be fully equivalent to the dir syntax.