From: Junio C Hamano Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 19:35:00 GMT Subject: Re: Shell quoting Message-ID: <7vpsrayviz.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: Linus Torvalds writes: > 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. > > IOW, the string "a\b'c!d" would become 'a'\\'b'\''c'\!'d' after > surrounding sq_quote with single-ticks. I vaguely recall you had a code that assumes what sq_quote() produces and unquote it without using shell. If somebody does the above change for '!' and '\', that code may need to be checked and adjusted as well. Sorry I could not give more specifics -- I've been looking for the code I am talking about unsuccessfully for the past 30 minutes..