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Subject: Re: Quoting the arguments to a function
From: =?utf-8?Q?Lawrence_Vel=C3=A1zquez?= <vq@larryv.me>
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Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 20:09:46 -0400
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> On Sep 15, 2016, at 5:41 PM, zv <zv@nxvr.org> wrote:
>=20
> I want to supply the arguments of a function (an alias to Emacs =
`calc') without expansion, e.g:
>=20
> 	zv@computer# calc 20/2*15
> 	150
>=20
>=20
> Today of course the result gives "zsh: no matches found: 20*15/2"

Why can't you just quote the argument?

	% calc '20/2*15'

vq=