Re: [Help-bash] Transform strings with special characters so that the strings don't need to be quoted?

[Peng Yu]

> printf -v escaped_var %q "$var"

I don't see this usage in the manual.

> shquote() {
>   local q=\'
>   printf "'%s'" "${1//"$q"/$q\\$q$q}"
> }
> escaped_var=$(shquote "$var")

This is not robust with other characters that need to be escaped.

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Regards,
Peng