Re: You said the J word

[Paul Haahr <haahr@mv.us.adobe.com>]

> but grep uses '\' to quote, and we get the "more than
> one way of quoting" bogieman.

es already supports \ for quoting, or hadn't you noticed?
(boy, we do have to write a man page :-)

> [spelling correction in xenix's shell]

pike's v8 shell also did this, which was pleasant.  i'm not sure how
one would make this work for general globbing, because, as you say,
output files presumably don't already exist.  (perhaps ask the user?)

to think about...