perl substitution question

Chuck Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Mon Jan 15 18:21:50 UTC 2007


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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