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No need for a lot of if-else... Just add a backslash if required, then append the character.
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This fixes... incrond[1714]: cannot exec process: Resource temporarily unavailable ... with bad file name due to messing escaping.
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The correct way is to only escape the single-quote, and then put the path variables '$@' '$#' in them in commands. Other characters need not be escaped, as they will not be treated as special within single-quoted strings. See #101 |
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The way you have done it, when the path variables are in single quotes, everything inside will be treated literally so the literal name of a file containing something like The lesson here is always use single quotes for any input in shell, and always only escape the single quote itself within it. This memory rule prevents problems with escaping special characters. |
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