Wolfgang Laun wrote:
A relatively safe way would be to enclose the path name in apostrophes
(') and escape all contained apostrophes and backslashes with a
backslash.
That my work in some shell, but not in bash, for example.
In bash, in a single-qouted argument, backslash is a normal character,
not an escape character. As a consequence, the apostrohpe cannot
be included directly, since it cannot be escaped.
Instead, the apostrophe has to be replaced by either
apos-backsl-apos-apos ('\'') or apos-quot-apos-qout-apos ('"'"'):
$ echo $SHELL
/bin/bash
$ touch 'a b"c$d!e?f&g*h\i'\''1'
$ touch 'a b"c$d!e?f&g*h\i'"'"'2'
$ ls -1
a b"c$d!e?f&g*h\i'1
a b"c$d!e?f&g*h\i'2
Markus
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