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tcsh vs zsh. Escape/control characters

I am having problems running this command to work in zsh: my_command -u something -s X:^0 The command works right away on tcsh, but on zsh I get: zsh: no matches found -s X:^0 This made me ...
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Can't use exclamation mark (!) in bash?

I'm trying to use the curl command to access a http url with a exclamation mark (!) in its path. e.g: curl -v "http://example.org/!287s87asdjh2/somepath/someresource" the console replies with bash: ...
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Difference between ' and " on command line (bash)?

I used to use '' and "" interchangeably on the command line, but I recently noticed that '$HOME/some/dir' is not expanded, while "$HOME/some/dir" is. I searched around a little bit and found that "" ...