[TUHS] A few comments on porting the Bourne shell

[John Cowan]

On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 3:47 PM Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages at gmail.com>
wrote:

I wish shells didn't supoprt globbing, and that glob(1) would be a
> standalone
> program still today.  It would simplify much of the quoting issues if most
> characters were just characters to the shell.
>

I like the way the rc shell works: globbing is done, but any word in single
quotes suppresses all interpretation (double quote has no meaning)
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