From:	Nathan Phillips <nathan AT ug2 DOT sthughs DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>
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Subject:	Re: Forgive my ignorance, but can someone answer a question for me?
Date:	Thu, 27 Feb 1997 19:43:18 +0000
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On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, Kurt Skauen wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
> >correct, I think: the shell has no business knowing which arguments are 
> >filenames and which aren't.  Otherwise it would collapse, e.g., Sed 
> >commands like s/foobar//.
> So what are the 'quoting' characters for?
To stop wildcard expansion, shell variable expansion, redirection symbols,
etc. ie shell assumes names with wildcards in are filenames.

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