Apparently you have not been bitten by a filename expansion bug when shell scripting. This kind of thing is fairly common with bash and some of the other ones w

Apparently you have not been bitten by a filename expansion bug when shell scripting. This kind of thing is fairly common with bash and some of the other ones when dealing with files that have spaces/newlines/whatever. It boils down to learning and knowing your tools and how to work around their limitations.