Bug in echo when trying to print "******************************************************************************************"

[Robert Thompson]

I am using CentOS5. In a virtual console when I type the command:
                                            echo 
"*********************************************************"
I get the attached file. When I booted up with Ubuntu 7.04 & repeat, I 
get one word: "Desktop". It dawned on me that both results are the 
same:  a list of files/directories in my home directory.

When I repeat this using t# instead of * it works OK. That is the 
command "echo ########################################"
results in 40 # symbols.

Bob T.

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