First off, this is from 2002. Second, the proposed solutions in #3, which use ls, are buggy. They don't work in the face of filenames with a newline in them.

First off, this is from 2002. Second, the proposed solutions in #3, which use ls, are buggy. They don't work in the face of filenames with a newline in them. % python -c 'open("ab\ncd", "w")' % ls ab* | cat ab cd