Re: [Bobs-devel] filename problems

[Joe z. <jz...@at...>]

Have you tried escaping single quotes like this, where $filename is the 
variable containing the name of the file:
    \'$filename\'

Joe

Rene Rask wrote:

>The names are quoted. I've tried both double and single quoting.
>If I can get bash to accept the names as "literal" instead of "glob" it
>should solve the problem.
>
>A name like "some name^Mtest" does not behave well.
>Only working solution I've found was this way:
>$'some name^Mtest'
>But I can't figure out how that is useful in a script.
>
>
>I'll keep trying.
>
>-Rene
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>On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 07:26, Joe zacky wrote:
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>>Rene Rask wrote:
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>>>I've been looking into the filename problems.
>>>
>>>It seems to me that escaping filenames in PHP will ony lead to a 
>>>constant headache (which is not what I need right now ;)
>>>
>>>I've found a few Bash tricks that look really promising but I haven't 
>>>cracked the problem yet. I'm able to make Bash escape a filename with 
>>>weird characters in it. But I'm still not able to do it with input 
>>>from a list.
>>>When (if?) I get this working we should be able to stop worrying about 
>>>filenames.
>>>If you know any Bash experts please ask if they can help.
>>>
>>>-Rene
>>>
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>>Have you tried "quoting the filenames?" That also works in bash.
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