[Linux-disciples] A function call for escaped characters

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 06:52:08PM -0400, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
> This page
> http://linuxreviews.org/beginner/Bash-Scripting-Introduction-HOWTO/en/x311.html
> purports to list all the characters that must be escaped. I can't vouch
> for its completeness, but it seems like it covers all the ones that are
> likely (or even unlikely) to be appear in filenames.

It doesn't include the space character, or the semicolon. Or
did I not look closely enough? From what I can tell, it only
lists

#  " (double quote)
# ' (single quote)
# ` (backquote)
# \ (backslash)

There must be a more complete list. And I imagine there's a
way to ask bash what it escapes, but I could be wrong. Maybe
bash-devel exists and can help me.

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