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Globbing asterisk cannot be escaped in file reads.

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Description

`TextIO.read().from("*.txt")` always expands, and escaping the asterisk does not help if there is a file that starts with a literal asterisk.

Imported from Jira [BEAM-13231](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-13231). Original Jira may contain additional context.
Reported by: robertwb.

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