Here is an irritation that gets me every so often: the Bourne shell hasno wildcard match operator that you can use in if checks and the like.You can do wildcard matches, but only in case statements.

(Bash has the [[ =~ ]] operator, but it uses regular expressionsinstead of shell wildcards. I know, I pick nits, but shell wildcards areoften simpler and they match what you use in other sh contexts.)

This comes up surprisingly often, at least in the sort