Re: Proposal to add /usr/bin/shquote

[Alan Barrett <apb%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Fri, 05 Sep 2008, Alan Barrett wrote:
> I often find the need, in shell scripts, to escape arguments to be
> passed to other shell commands.  I'd like to add a /usr/bin/shquote
> command as a simple wrapper around shquotev(3) to do this.

I don't yet see consensus on the idea, but
nevertheless the code is available from
<ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/apb/shquote.20080906/>

--apb (Alan Barrett)