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Re: bad case of parameter substitution with quotes (${p//x/y})
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Greg Wooledge |
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Re: bad case of parameter substitution with quotes (${p//x/y}) |
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Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:39:04 -0400 |
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On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 10:54:50AM +0200, Yves wrote:
> I want to generate a "bash-proof" string by enclosing it in
> single quotes and managing enclosed single quotes.
A better approach is to use:
printf -v new_string %q "$original_string"
printf %q is essentially the reverse of eval.