Re: Shell quoting
>
> Does anybody really still use tcsh? It's a broken mess.
>
> Junio's "sq_quote()" works wonderfully on any valid shells. The fact that
> tcsh expands ! even inside single quotes is just pure braindamage.
> You could expand "sq_quote" to handle '!' and '\' characters the exact
> same way it handles the single tick (end single-tick quoting, do \! or \\
> and start single-tick quoting again) and that might be good enough for
> tcsh.
It seems easier to just \-escape any special characters.
-hpa