On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 3:47 PM Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com> wrote:

I wish shells didn't supoprt globbing, and that glob(1) would be a standalone
program still today. It would simplify much of the quoting issues if most
characters were just characters to the shell.

I like the way the rc shell works: globbing is done, but any word in single quotes suppresses all interpretation (double quote has no meaning)