Re: realpath quoting
On Fri, May 03, 2024 at 06:59:37AM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote:
> I have a need to get the full path of a file that has spaces in its name to
> use as a program argument
>
> e.g.
>
> jeremy@client:~$ ls -l name\ with\ spaces
> -rw-r--r-- 1 jeremy jeremy 0 May 3 06:51 'name with spaces'
> jeremy@client:~$ realpath name\ with\ spaces
> /home/jeremy/name with spaces
Looks good to me.
> The spaces without quotes cause problems with subsequent processing.
Then the subsequent processing has bugs in it. Fix them.
> Can realpath or other utility return a quoted pathname?
That would be extremely counterproductive. Do not look for kludges to
work around your script's bugs. Fix the bugs instead.
Start with <https://mywiki.wooledge.org/Quotes>.
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