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Asterisk tilde (*~) acts as asterisk space tilde (* ~)

Created by: kirch7

Reproduction: Suppose you are in a directory $HOME/IC/superboids/. In this directory there are some files endding in tilde (e.g. pineapple.sh~). Now you want to remove theses files using rm.

Expected behavior: rm *~ should remove all files in the current directory whose names end in tilde.

kirch:~/IC/superboids# ls
b	   lines.py   Makefile	     onion.py	   pineapple.sh~  video2types_.gp  video.gp	 video.py	virtuais3.avi
lines.dat  lines.py~  Miniboid.cpp~  pineapple.sh  progress.txt   video2types.gp   video_inf.gp  virtuais2.avi	virtuais.avi
kirch:~/IC/superboids# rm *~
kirch:~/IC/superboids# ls
b	   lines.py   Makefile	     onion.py	   video2types_.gp  video.gp	 video.py	virtuais3.avi
lines.dat  pineapple.sh  progress.txt   video2types.gp   video_inf.gp  virtuais2.avi	virtuais.avi

Actual behavior: rm *~ actually acts as rm * ~.

kirch:~/IC/superboids# ls
b	   lines.py   Makefile	     onion.py	   pineapple.sh~  video2types_.gp  video.gp	 video.py	virtuais3.avi
lines.dat  lines.py~  Miniboid.cpp~  pineapple.sh  progress.txt   video2types.gp   video_inf.gp  virtuais2.avi	virtuais.avi
kirch:~/IC/superboids# rm *~
rm: cannot remove '.git': Is a directory
rm: cannot remove 'b': Is a directory
rm: cannot remove '/home/kirch': Is a directory
kirch:~/IC/superboids# ls
b

Build information: ion 1.0.0-alpha (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) rev 96d5b5d2

Related: https://github.com/redox-os/ion/issues/406 https://github.com/redox-os/ion/pull/407

Misc: I had similar problems with ls. I had backup, there was no huge problem.