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Date:      Mon, 15 Jan 2007 10:21:49 -0800
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Questions Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: perl substitution question
Message-ID:  <E284B392-C672-452A-816F-9CCB166C755D@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070114214410.GB24039@thought.org>
References:  <20070114024551.GA21847@thought.org> <20070114034148.GC2734@kobe.laptop> <20070114201546.GA28048@thought.org> <20070114203104.GB3404@kobe.laptop> <20070114214410.GB24039@thought.org>

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On Jan 14, 2007, at 1:44 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
> 	Man!  truer words, (&c)... .  One o the very few suggestions
> 	left for improving shells [ and/or subshells ] is a flag,
> 	say '-N' which would have *nothing* to be escaped.  In other
> 	words a '$' or '"' would be interpreted literally.    But I'm
> 	sure there are reasons for not escaping some bytes.

ZSH has the "noglob" keyword which can be quite useful...

-- 
-Chuck




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