Re: realpath quoting

[David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com>]

On 5/2/24 15:59, 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
>
>
> The spaces without quotes cause problems with subsequent processing.
>
> Can realpath or other utility return a quoted pathname?


Perhaps Perl and the module String::ShellQuote ?

2024-05-02 18:50:28 dpchrist@laalaa ~
$ touch "name with spaces"

2024-05-02 18:50:45 dpchrist@laalaa ~
$ touch "name with\nnewline"

2024-05-02 19:06:01 dpchrist@laalaa ~
$ perl -MString::ShellQuote -e 'print shell_quote(@ARGV), "\n"' name*
'name with spaces' 'name with\nnewline'


David