Re: Avoiding the zshells intelligence...in one case

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 24 Jan 2017, Ray Andrews wrote:

> 'eval' strips quotes?  I use eval to re-expand globs and just a while
> back you showed me another way so ...maybe all my grief comes from
> 'eval' and that's where I keep losing quotation??  Nuts.

"eval" behaves for practical purposes as if you had re-typed the command
line and hit Enter again.  So if typing out and running the command would
change the quoting, eval will change the quoting.