Re: Defining commands to not evaluate certain metacharacters

[Philippe Troin <phil@xxxxxxxx>]

Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Dec 20,  1:39pm, Lloyd Zusman wrote:
> }
> } I want to define a set of commands that I can execute from the command
> } line under zsh.
> 
> This is very nearly a non-starter.  The shell parses shell syntax, not
> the syntax of some other language.
> 
> You can get part of the way there with the "noglob" precommand modifier,
> but that doesn't change the special meanings of parentheses, braces, or
> redirections.

How hard would it be implementing a "noparse" precommand modifier?

I've also been wanting to use such a construct, for example when using
the zmv contributed function.

Phil.