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Re: trivial question

On Tue, Dec 6, 2022 at 7:28 AM Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> If a word contains an unquoted instance of one of the characters ‘*’, ‘(’, ‘|’, ‘<’, ‘[’, or ‘?’, it is regarded as a pattern for filename generation, unless the GLOB option is unset. If the EXTENDED_GLOB option is set, the ‘^’ and ‘#’ characters also denote a pattern; otherwise they are not treated specially by the shell.

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> Deus absit.  What I might like is some way of turning it all off.  Like unsetopt glob, yes?

Yes?  Re-read the doc excerpt you quoted above?

Generally, though, you don't want to do that.  Instead you should use
the "noglob" precommand modifier, e.g.

% noglob echo var[2]
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