<http://www.defensecode.com/public/DefenseCode_Unix_Wildcarsx_Gone_Wild.txt> points out that shell wildcard expansion can deliver surprising results in the presence of filenames which look like switches to the program. For example, the command soffice --invisible --nologo --convert-to pdf --outdir subdir1 * looks like a reasonable attempt to create a pdf for each file in the current dirrectory. However, if the current directory contains total 12 -rw-r--r-- 1 terry terry 9320 Jul 14 10:47 nuttin.odt -rw-r--r-- 1 terry terry 0 Jul 14 10:52 --version the effect is to display the version of LibreOffice and exit. This is a contrived example, of course. And I lack the imagination to think of a terribly bad result. So the request boils down to making LibreOffice work like the Gnu/Linux utilities. I think it would be harmless to have the requested behaviour on all platforms.
(In reply to comment #0) > http://www.defensecode.com/public/DefenseCode_Unix_Wildcarsx_Gone_Wild.txt http://www.defensecode.com/public/DefenseCode_Unix_WildCards_Gone_Wild.txt for correct link. Confirmed. Seems like a reasonable request. Status set to NEW. Severity set to enhancement.