Re: Strange compgen behaviour

[Greg Wooledge]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 03:05:07PM -0700, Mathias Dahl wrote:
> I did not find any generic way to quote/escape file names so I
> hardcoded some chars I know exist in my file names and used sed:

printf %q "$filename"

will either insert backslashes in front of all the shell metacharacters,
or $'...' quote the whole thing, or take some other action which renders
a string "safe".  It's basically the opposite of eval.