Related to quoting, Oil has a way to opt out of needing it everywhere, which I documented here: Simple Word Evaluation in Unix Shell http://www.oilshell.org/r

Related to quoting, Oil has a way to opt out of needing it everywhere, which I documented here: Simple Word Evaluation in Unix Shell http://www.oilshell.org/release/latest/doc/simple-word-eval.html http://www.oilshell.org/release/latest/doc/simple-word-eval.... parsing and evaluation aren't interleaved, and code and data aren't confused No Implicit Splitting, Dynamic Globbing, or Empty Elision Opt In to the Old Behavior With Explicit Expressions Also related: Oil Doesn't Confuse Flags and Files http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2020/02/dashglob.html http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2020/02/dashglob.html