[OT] shell quoting

[Alexander Kirillov]

>> Actually I was trying to achieve just the opposite: to prevent * expansion.
>> And the only solution I've found so far was to explicitly forbid
>> pathname expansion with shell -f option:
> 
> Did we try \* in the mix at all? And \\* \\\* etc as needed (once it
> took \\\\\\\*)

Yea, we actually did.
This helps to avoid expansion but then find interprets \ literally in ! -path './bb\*'
so the pattern doesn't really match anything useful.

-Sasha