Subject: Re: bug#35325: Enable dired wildcards from the command line
From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2019 13:28:15 -0400
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

> (dired "/tmp/p*") works great.
> So why can't one do
> $ emacs /tmp/\*p
> to get the same effect? (Directory slice.)

This would make it impossible to visit a (possibly new) file literally
named "/tmp/*p".

emacs --eval '(dired "bin/p*")'  works, and can eg be defined as a shell
function if used often.