bug in rm???

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Just a moment ago something weird happened. I was cleaning up files
and noticed a very strange behaviour of the rm command. AFAIK Linux is
case-sensitive, so you van have three files TeST, test and TEST in one
directory. But I deleted more than I wanted to (no big deal, rm is the
issue)

So I tried this:

  #!/bin/bash
  touch TEST
  touch TeST
  touch test
  ls # all three are there
  rm te*
  ls # ALL THREE ARE GONE???

IMO this is _very_ dangerous behaviour, one would expect Linux command
to be compatible with the Linux filesystem (maybe rm is a port of del
:-\)

Is this a known issue? Right know I have only Fedora at hand, but I
wonder if other distro's have it too.

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11:11-11:16
Fedora Core release 1 (Yarrow) Linux 2.4.22-1.2129.nptl




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