tcsh

Likewise. Quite a few people here not realizing this is likely (t)csh-specific. I ran a quick test on multiple tcsh versions I had installed, the oldest being 6.13 (2004, RedHat 4). All returned 'Unknown user: *.' It wouldn't surprise me if at some point this expanded to every user's home directory, the way '~username' expands to /home/username, or wherever that user's home is. I couldn't find anything of note in https://github.com/tcsh-org/tcsh/blob/master/Fixes

Quite a few if you run *BSD! This is on FreeBSD 12.0-STABLE (and use `csh` as noted in the first line). These still works: % "How poorly would you rate the Unix (so-called) user interface? Unmatched '"'. % ^How did the sex change^ operation go? Modifier failed. % If I had a ( for every $ Congress spent, what would I have? Too many ('s. % make love make: don't know how to make love. Stop % got a light? got: No match. % man: why did you get a divorce? man:: Too many arguments. % \(- (-: Command not found. No longer works. % rm congressional-ethics rm: congressional-ethics: No such file or directory % ar m God ar: warning: God: no such file % [where is Jimmy Hoffa? [where: No match. % sleep with me usage: sleep seconds % ^What is saccharine