An easy question about Solaris

Hi All,
I'm new in Solaris. Last week I found a rediculous problem in my system.
I created a new directory named "test" under "/", and changed to the empty directory by "cd /test". Then I type "touch *" and get a new file named "*"!!! After that, I create two other new files. When I wanted to delete the * file I typed "rm *". You can guess what happened. All files in the current directory was ereased! Maybe I'm wrong, but I think the OS should prevent user creating any file named "*".
Will anyone kindly give me an advice about that? My email address is [email protected] Thanks a lot!!!

Hi
If you do a
$touch *
then you should not get a file named "*" , rather
the command should say "No match" , as there are
no files in the directory. If there are files in
the directory, it should touch all the files.
On the contrary if you do a touch "*" , that is you
want to create a file named "*" , then you are held
responsible for that, and you should remove it by
using something like
$ rm "*"
Let me know if this helps you.
Thanks,
Manish
SUN-DTS

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