How to escape file names in bash shell scripts
March 29, 2009 | categories:
Bash
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After fighting with Bash for quite some time, I found out that the following code provides a nice basis for escaping special characters. Ofcource it is not complete, but the most important characters are filtered.
If anybody has a better solution, please let me know. It works and it is readable but not pretty.
FILE_ESCAPED=`echo "$FILE" | \
sed s/\ /\\\\\\\ /g | \
sed s/\'/\\\\\\\'/g | \
sed s/\&/\\\\\\\&/g | \
sed s/\;/\\\\\\\;/g | \
sed s/(/\\\\\(/g | \
sed s/)/\\\\\)/g `
