Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 00:04:23 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: perl substitution question Message-ID: <20070115220422.GA2250@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <E284B392-C672-452A-816F-9CCB166C755D@mac.com> References: <20070114024551.GA21847@thought.org> <20070114034148.GC2734@kobe.laptop> <20070114201546.GA28048@thought.org> <20070114203104.GB3404@kobe.laptop> <20070114214410.GB24039@thought.org> <E284B392-C672-452A-816F-9CCB166C755D@mac.com>
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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
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