Windows in this regard does it right. It provides standard calls for expanding globs, but the glob handling is handled purely in the application logic, not in t

Windows in this regard does it right. It provides standard calls for expanding globs, but the glob handling is handled purely in the application logic, not in the shell itself. There are some advantages to doing this in the shell, but really they are dwarfed by the problems that are caused by users not being very careful about quoting and "--" arguments.