Dexter Filmore wrote:
Well, shouldn't \ do th job as well?
Thing is, even if I pass the filename
foo\ bar
echo tells me the name is
foo bar
No, because $foo and "$foo" inside scripts behave very differently in
the presence of spaces in what the variable holds.
My recommendation is that you are probably using the wrong tool. If
something is getting too convoluted to handle in bash, you need to
switch up a level to something like perl or python where you don't get
so many "quasi" interactions. There are simply going to be far too many
interactions between the shell that calls your script (could be csh,
zsh, ksh, etc.) and the shell that execute your script (bash) to ever
get the quoting completely sorted.
In your situation, I'd probably use Perl in spite of my being a Python
person.
-a
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