On 03/05/2024 09:19, Greg Wooledge wrote:
I still insist that this is a workaround that should *not* be used to try to cancel out quoting bugs in one's shell scripts.
There are still specific cases when quoting is necessary, e.g. ssh remote command (however you have to be sure concerning shell on the remote host).
In BASH printf has %q format. GNU coreutils supports it as well, but dash does not, so be careful.
Likely Jeremy's case does not really require this kind of quoting.While "ls -l" output is for humans, realpath is often used in scripts. Certainly it should nor return quoted output by default. I am in doubts if a dedicated option should be added to realpath.