Nerius Landys <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there a function, or command line utility, to "escape" a string, > making it suitable to be input on the command line? For example, this > "escape" utility would take a input of "te st" and create an output of > "te\ st". Other things such as quotes and single quotes would be > handled as well.
You can use something like this: sed 's/[^A-Za-z_0-9]/\\&/' Perl has a quotemeta() function and \Q escape sequence for this purpose, e.g.: $ perl -e '$_="te st"; print "\Q$_\E\n"' te\ st -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber [email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
