Re: lynx-dev Escaping URLs on the command line?

[Ian Collier]

On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 07:53:07AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> lynx does this internally (to invoke external programs).  most cases can
> be handled by using single quotes around the whole string, and a backslash
> before a single quote, e.g.,
> 
>       'this isn\'t a sentence'

That doesn't work either on /bin/sh or on bash 2.02.1 here on Solaris 8.
Oh, and it doesn't work on /bin/csh or tcsh 6.08.  Or /bin/ksh...

You'd need to write

        'this isn'\''t a sentence.'

imc

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