>
> For the program I'm writing (to make Lynx the default browser in OS
> X), I need to escape URLs when I pass them to Lynx on the command
> line.
>
> I need to know how much escaping is necessary -- too much might make
> an escape character look like a literal to Lynx, and too little will
> fail in the shell.
> And "the shell" may be a problem too; do different shells (bash,
> tcsh, ksh) use different sets of "interpretable" characters? Is it
> possible to have an escaping routine that will work with any shell?
> What list of characters should I escape, and is backslash-escaping
> sufficient (a singlequote may appear in a URL, according to RFC 2396)?
>
> Has anyone worked this out already?
lynx does this internally (to invoke external programs). most cases can
be handled by using single quotes around the whole string, and a backslash
before a single quote, e.g.,
'this isn\'t a sentence'
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