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Re: RFE: a way to echo the arguments with quoting
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: RFE: a way to echo the arguments with quoting |
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Sun, 02 Mar 2014 10:12:04 +0100 |
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Dave Yost <Dave@Yost.com> writes:
> I have an ugly function I wrote for zsh that does this:
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> Sat 14:17:25 ip2 yost /Users/yost
> 1 634 Z% echo-quoted xyz \$foo 'a b c ' '\n'
> xyz '$foo' 'a b c ' '\n'
> Sat 14:17:53 ip2 yost /Users/yost
> 0 635 Z%
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> It would be nice if there were an easy way to do this in bash.
printf "%q" does that.
Andreas.
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