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On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Dietmar Rempfer wrote:

> Let us define the following function:
> 
> test () { echo \"$*\" }
> 
> Now, if I do ``test blabla'', I get "blabla", which is what I want.
> But if I say e.g. ``test *.aux'', I would like to see "*.aux" printed out,
> but instead I get the message: zsh: no matches found: *.aux.
> 

What about 
   test '*.aux' :-)

But really, you want

   unsetopt nomatch

% setopt nomatch
% test *.aux
zsh: no matches found: *.aux
% unsetopt nomatch
% test *.aux
*.aux
% whence -f test
test () {                                                                       
        echo $*                                                                 
}                                                                               

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