Dave Yost <d...@yost.com> writes: > I have an ugly function I wrote for zsh that does this: > > Sat 14:17:25 ip2 yost /Users/yost > 1 634 Z% echo-quoted xyz \$foo 'a b c ' '\n' > xyz '$foo' 'a b c ' '\n' > Sat 14:17:53 ip2 yost /Users/yost > 0 635 Z% > > It would be nice if there were an easy way to do this in bash.
printf "%q" does that. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
