Bug#160528: This is not upstream design decision

[Antony Gelberg]

Osamu Aoki wrote:

> If you want multiple files open, use xargs.
>
> Unix tools tend to do one thing at a time.
>
> Keeping this bug report serves no purpose.  Closing.

I disagree.  It's common that Unix tools can handle filename globbing. 
e.g. Are you suggesting that one should use xargs with ls to list all 
the files matching a certain pattern?

I would have looked to see where it was an "upstream design decision" 
but I couldn't find the upstream bug tracker.  The last comment in this 
bug report

However I'm not going to play bug tennis by re-opening the bug report, 
I'll leave it to someone else.  But far from "serving no purpose", this 
bug *still* annoys me, and has done for many years.

Antony