Warp wrote:
>   The shell doing the expansion rather than the program is a rather clever
> idea. 

It has its drawbacks, too. Having a file named -rf in your home directory 
leads to problems, for example.  Before shells properly escaped everything, 
files with spaces in the names were very problematic as well.

>   Filtering some files through a chain of programs (such as grep and sed)
> takes just a few seconds of writing a few commands on the command line.
> Writing a program to do that would probably take a hundred times longer.

Depends on your tools at hand and what kind of files you're searching.

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