On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Benjamin Smith <lists at benjamindsmith.com> wrote: > In bash, given a string assignment as follows, how do I "add slashes" > automagically, so that it can be safely passed to another program? Notice > that the assignment contains spaces, single-quotes and double-quotes, > maybe > god-only-knows-what-else. It's untrusted data. > > Yet I need to pass it all *safely*. > > The appropriate function in PHP is addslashes(); but what is the bash > equivalent? EG: > 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. > > #! /bin/sh > A="This isn't a \"parameter\""; > B=`/path/to/somecommand.sh $A`; > exit 0; > > > Thanks, > > -Ben > HTH, -Bob -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080226/b81aa880/attachment-0005.html>