In this case, if you're not an expert with bash, a good rule of thumb would be to pipe your glob-expanded list of junk into perl -nle 'print' (or echo, or... et

In this case, if you're not an expert with bash, a good rule of thumb would be to pipe your glob-expanded list of junk into perl -nle 'print' (or echo, or... etc) before running something destructive. Every time. Until you're an expert.