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It's not just about "more advanced", it's also about being less surprising and having fewer caveats. And besides, if you're going to add things like globbing in your shell then you might as well do it in such a way to make it much more useful for common operations.


If you want less surprising and fewer caveats, use a POSIX shell. There is nothing less surprising than a program using a standard that's older than you are.




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