my latest dired * wildcard accident

[Dan Jacobson]

Just wanted to note that I was very befuddled by the weird output from
(dired-do-shell-command "sed 's/.*GET//' *" nil (quote ("al")))
the sed command had no effect

(dired-do-shell-command "sed 's/.*GET//'" nil (quote ("al")))
no output

until I did
(dired-do-shell-command "echo sed 's/.*GET//' *" nil (quote ("al")))
revealing
sed s/.alGET// al

so what I'm saying is that that "*" is gonna trip people up and should
be changed to $* or $1 or something less likely to get mistakenly
used.  Or at least it should be so configurable.
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