Thanks for the lead.
You're right, I do want to avoid having to use quotes and backslashes.
I'll follow up looking into the information you kindly supplied.
Thank You.
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Lawrence Velázquez <larryv@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 24, 2021, at 12:06 AM, jdh wrote:
> > Is there some way the invoiked script can reach into the buffer before
> > zsh complains about the *.
> >
> > I've tried: 'unsetop GLOB' but that didn't work.
>
> Well yeah, filename expansion happens before the script executes.
>
> > Simple example: How can I get a script to do 2*4 in the below simple version:
> >
> > $ calculate 2*4
>
> Presumably you won't be satisfied with
>
> calculate '2*4'
>
> or
>
> noglob calculate 2*4
>
> You may want to read through this thread beginning with users/27103,
> which already covered a lot of the same ground.
>
> https://www.zsh.org/mla/users/2021/msg00815.html
>
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> vq