No, it doesn't work. "./*" expands to "./ -@" as a single field, which rm has no problems with. (Note that, however, this is still the globbing of the shell, as

No, it doesn't work. "./*" expands to "./ -@" as a single field, which rm has no problems with. (Note that, however, this is still the globbing of the shell, as far as I understand.)