Re: shell escape problem?

[Thomas Adam <thomas_adam16@yahoo.com>]

--- Matt Price <matt.price@utoronto.ca> wrote:
> I've written a little shell that generates this string and calls it

By "shell" I'll assume you mean a shell-script -- quite why you'd want to
do that when you could use an alias, is beyond me...

[..snip..]

Have you tried doing something like...

alias cmd='whatever --program "you want" --with-some options'

Then you can type:

cmd

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