On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 12:04:23AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2007-01-15 10:21, Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
>
No! no, cometh backeth, Giorgos! No war, just peace, love
anf flowers:-) Actually, I do use zsh, just have no clue how to
set noglob. I was going to ask, but didn't want to show my
ignorance. [[ been using zsh for 16, 17 years... ]]
Anyway, NOT to get into any kind of war--there being enuf
stupidity in the world--but I'm thinking of having essentially
a bare-threaded program loader. A trivial shell (tsh?) that
does little more than take any ISO.8859-[1-2] character and
do a fork-exec. Even "[" which is really /usr/bin/test,
would be sucked in as a plain "[". I do a lot of regex
stuff that meaning finding obscure patterns in text files or
marked-up files. I've got the regex book and a cheatsheet
several K lines long. (****)
Chuck, exactly what does noglob do? How to set/unset, please?
gary
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