Querying bash about which characters are escaped

[Stephen R Laniel]

I'd like to write a little command-line tool that cleans up
filenames by replacing escaped characters with unescaped
equivalents (e.g., replace ' ' with '_'), or by deleting
escaped characters altogether. I could approximate this
manually -- e.g.,

rename s/\;\'\"\ //g *

-- but that's a hack. I'd prefer to ask bash directly,
"Which characters do you escape?" Bash would hand me back a
list, which I would then use in a script.

Is there a way to query bash about which characters it
escapes? Surely bash knows this; I'm just curious if there's
any way to get that information from it directly.

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Stephen R. Laniel
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