unix question: files per directory

[Guy Harris]

>I would like it if "rm" were similar to most other commands, ie. you
>could rm "*", preventing the expansion of the * to all file names
>until "rm" got it,

Uhh, to what other commands are you referring?  Most UNIX commands don't
know squat about expanding "*"; they rely on the shell to do so, and
merely know about taking lists of file names as arguments.  Other OSes
do things differently; perhaps that's what you're thinking of?