From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 15 18:21:50 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59CC716A4A7 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:21:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mail-out3.apple.com (mail-out3.apple.com [17.254.13.22]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4054413C461 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:21:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from relay6.apple.com (a17-128-113-36.apple.com [17.128.113.36]) by mail-out3.apple.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0FILoU8022045; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 10:21:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay6.apple.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by relay6.apple.com (Symantec Mail Security) with ESMTP id F232410065; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 10:21:49 -0800 (PST) X-AuditID: 11807124-a2cebbb000006d75-92-45abc63d4ffb Received: from [17.214.13.96] (unknown [17.214.13.96]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by relay6.apple.com (Apple SCV relay) with ESMTP id D88E91003D; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 10:21:49 -0800 (PST) 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Chuck Swiger Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 10:21:49 -0800 To: Gary Kline X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Questions Subject: Re: perl substitution question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:21:50 -0000 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