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Does globbing not work in the shell?

I made (touched) a bunch of shit* files in ~/Desktop to amuse myself, which I guess is fine.

And then I made a few shit* files in ~, which should also be fine.

But when I try to mv my new shit* to ~/Desktop, it fails.

(ls shit* in ~ also fails.)



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