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On 2007-01-15 10:21, Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> wrote:
> 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...

OMG!  I managed to break a new shell war :)

/me ducks and runs very far away