I do not know of any shell that has a feature that would allow one to do command preprocessing, but I have managed to persuade shell-mode in emacs to do what you want.

Emacs shell-mode can be customized by setting some variables defined in the comint package. Put the following code in a file with ending ".el" (emacs lisp), and load it with the command "M-x load-file". After that, opening a shell buffer with "M-x shell" will give you a "shell" that does what you want. Quoting is achieved by enclosing the text to quote with "my-quote()".

Emacs lisp code: 

(defun my-quote-function (s)
  "quote special chars in string"
  (shell-quote-argument s))

(defun my-input-sender (proc command)
  "specialized comint-input-sender function with extra quoting"
  (let ((quoting-regex "my-quote(\\(.*\\))"))
    (string-match quoting-regex command)
    (let ((string-to-quote (match-string 1 command)))
      (if (null string-to-quote)
          (comint-simple-send proc command)
        (let ((quoted-string (my-quote-function string-to-quote)))
          (string-match quoting-regex command) 
          (comint-simple-send 
           proc
           (replace-match quoted-string t t command)))))))

(setq comint-input-sender 'my-input-sender)

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Works like this (excerpt from shell mode buffer): 

--> echo $foo

--> echo my-quote($foo)
$foo

--> echo "This is not quoted but" my-quote("this") is
This is not quoted but "this" is

-->

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Christian Lemburg
Brainbench MVP for Perl
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In reply to Re: Command line preprocessing by clemburg
in thread Command line preprocessing by suaveant

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