/bin/sh help needed

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

The shell expands all wildcards unless escaped or single quoted. That is 
why you need to escape finds:
find . -name foo.\* 
find . -name 'foo.*'

Using both quotes and escapes may be necessary. Then you have file system 
wildcards like *, sets, and ? (expanded by the shells) and regular 
expressions which have different rules. 

On 24 Apr 2002 at 10:50, David Kramer wrote:

> On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Derek D. Martin wrote:
> 
> > At some point hitherto, David Kramer hath spake thusly:
> > > Every combination of single quotes, double quotes, and escaping seems to 
> > > either send it all as one argument, or send it all as separate arguments, 
> > > but each argument is quoted.
> > 
> > You seem to have overlooked the most simple solution: don't quote it
> > at all.  This should give you exactly what you want: a space separated
> > list of args.  The main reason for quotes is to preserve space or
> > change the default handling of metacharacters.  In this case, it
> > appears you don't want to do either.  So don't use quotes.
> 
> With no quoting at all, the wildcards get expanded to files, and I need to 
> pass the wildcards to the program, not the matching files.
> 
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