26 Feb
2008
26 Feb
'08
3:46 p.m.
On Tuesday 26 February 2008, Bob Beers wrote:
short answer: single quotes will handle all characters, except single
quotes.
long answer: man bash the section called QUOTING may help you figure a solution.
I've read the man page. It helps if I already know the input - I don't have a problem with manually putting slashes in front of spaces and single quotes. But in this case, I don't know the input. It's untrusted data.
There is no mechanism for escaping untrusted input?
-Ben
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