Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:

> In my example (in my
> initial report), also the shell did not interpret it as wildcard, but I
> had to say "y" to get it executed.  This is very confusing.  It would be
> better to ask "confirm - pass literal `*' to the shell?" or so.

Yup, that's what I set out to do in bug#35564.  Here is the patch
series, condensed into a single patch for convenience.