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Markus E Leypold wrote:
>> $ echo *.ads   # argument text is a pattern
>> *.ads          #   output text is a pattern

Not if you use csh:
 >> % echo *.ads
 >> echo: No match
 >> % ls *.ads
 >> No match

This is hardly new - in fact there's a classic UNIX joke:
 >> % Got a match?
 >> No match