On Fri, 22 Dec 2023 13:09:11 -0500, Evan Tremblay <evanrtremb...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> --no-show-all (default if not specified)
> --show-all
>
> so, if you run:
> cat *
>
> it wont run(unless you use --show-all).

The asterisk is expanded by the shell, not by cat; cat just sees a list of
files, and it can't know whether they are "all" the files or not.

--
D.

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