Preparing strings for Shell

[Mark Smith]

Devin, I've always found that quoting things like filepaths sems to  
do the trick - is there some problem that quoting doesn't solve?

Best,

Mark

On 22 Nov 2008, at 00:02, Devin Asay wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We have a URLencode function to prepare strings for posting to an  
> http server. Is there anything comparable for formatting strings to  
> execute as a shell command? (I'm on OSX). For example, spaces in  
> file paths have to be escaped with a backslash (\), as do other  
> characters. What's the best practice for this?
>
> Regards,
>
> Devin
>
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