An odd difference between "cat file" and "cat<file"

[Dick Dunn]

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I just stepped in a curious one - "sh", at least here, under 4.2, doesn't
expand wildcards in the "word" following > or < .  Why would I care?  I'm
a lazy typist; I was reaching down about three levels for a file and used a
wildcard with an indirection.  It didn't work.  Example:  suppose that
	ibble/gleep/farkle
exists, and that a unique wildcarding of it is
	ib*/gl*/f*
Then,	cat ib*/gl*/f*
will list the file but
	cat <ib*/gl*/f*
gives	ib*/gl*/f*: no such file or directory

(BTW, did I miss some fine print?  Be this buglet or featurette?  I notice
that sh will do expansions in, say, "cd" where it needs a single filename
which is known to exist.)
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