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Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 18:22:24 +0200
From: Eric Smith <Es@fruitcom.com>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: turning off quote interpolation
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Sure,

goo () {
        w3m "http://www.google.com/search?q=$1+$2+$3+$4+$5+$6+$7+$8&num=100"
}

... trivial

According to Philippe Troin on Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 09:17:44AM -0700:
> Eric Smith <es@fruitcom.com> writes:
> 
> > I have for example a function that passes args to google search.
> > Most times I \"quote a few words\" but have to escape the quotes so that 
> > the shell passes them through to the command :)
> > 
> > How can I have zsh pass the quotes through without having
> > to type extra backslashes or whatever?
> 
> Show us the function...

Eric