What I do for some functions is:

function calc(){}

alias calc="noglob calc"

and then I can do:

calc 6*7
42

best

Pier Paolo Grassi


Il giorno ven 26 nov 2021 alle ore 08:08 jdh <dhenman@gmail.com> ha scritto:

>
> Thanks for the lead.
> You're right, I do want to avoid having to use quotes and backslashes.
> I'll follow up looking into the information you kindly supplied.
>
> Thank You.
>
> ---------
>
> Lawrence Velázquez <larryv@zsh.org> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Nov 24, 2021, at 12:06 AM, jdh wrote:
> > > Is there some way the invoiked script can reach into the buffer before
> > > zsh complains about the *.
> > >
> > > I've tried:  'unsetop GLOB' but that didn't work.
> >
> > Well yeah, filename expansion happens before the script executes.
> >
> > > Simple example: How can I get a script to do 2*4 in the below simple
> version:
> > >
> > >     $  calculate  2*4
> >
> > Presumably you won't be satisfied with
> >
> >     calculate '2*4'
> >
> > or
> >
> >     noglob calculate 2*4
> >
> > You may want to read through this thread beginning with users/27103,
> > which already covered a lot of the same ground.
> >
> > https://www.zsh.org/mla/users/2021/msg00815.html
> >
> > --
> > vq
>
>