This isn't strictly a bash question, and I'd prefer a POSIX-only solution if possible [ suggestions as to a good question to ask POSIX-only questions would be appreciated ].
Suppose I need to encode a list of filenames in a variable and each filename may contain spaces, what is good way to encode such a list so that the resulting variable is readily compose-able and decodeable? In particular, I'd like to avoid the use of (unescaped) separators which might themselves be used in the filename. jon.
