Is there a way, ideally in bash, but if not in another shell, to put perl between hitting enter after you have entered a command and before the shell does all its quoting and magic? Basically a way to pre-process the command before bash reads it and do things like change 
s dave when you use $foo and " it interpolates
#to
s dave when\ you\ use\ \$foo\ and\ \"\ it\ interploates

#basically
s/^(s\s+\S+\s+)(.*)/$1\Q$2\E/;

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so that any any s command the text after the name get shell quoted? I hope that is clear enough...

The idea is s is a system messager, and due to the shell if you misquote " or $ it can screw you up... but I know I always want them quoted for that particular command...

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In reply to Command line preprocessing by suaveant

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