From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 19:31:14 GMT
Subject: Re: Shell quoting
Message-ID: <4329CC02.8090104@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0509151153140.26803@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> Does anybody really still use tcsh? It's a broken mess.
> 

Yes.

> 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