>And don't even get me started on how Bash interprets filenames as part of the arguments list when using * (e.g. file named "-rf") That's not Bash. That's just

>And don't even get me started on how Bash interprets filenames as part of the arguments list when using * (e.g. file named "-rf") That's not Bash. That's just... programs in Unix. Such is life when everything is stringly typed.