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Re: realpath quoting

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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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realpath quoting jeremy ardley <jeremy.ardley@gmail.com> - 2024-05-03 01:10 +0200
  Re: realpath quoting Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-05-03 01:40 +0200
    Re: realpath quoting Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-05-03 01:50 +0200
    Re: realpath quoting jeremy ardley <jeremy.ardley@gmail.com> - 2024-05-03 01:50 +0200
  Re: realpath quoting David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-05-03 04:20 +0200
    Re: realpath quoting Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-05-03 04:20 +0200
      Re: realpath quoting Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-05-03 05:00 +0200
        Re: realpath quoting jeremy ardley <jeremy.ardley@gmail.com> - 2024-05-03 06:40 +0200
          Re: realpath quoting Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-05-03 13:10 +0200
            Re: realpath quoting jeremy ardley <jeremy.ardley@gmail.com> - 2024-05-03 13:40 +0200
              Re: realpath quoting Sirius <sirius@trudheim.com> - 2024-05-03 13:50 +0200
              Re: realpath quoting David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-05-03 21:20 +0200
          Re: realpath quoting Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-05-03 17:20 +0200
        Re: realpath quoting David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-05-03 07:40 +0200
          Re: realpath quoting Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2024-05-04 15:30 +0200
            Re: realpath quoting Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-05-04 16:00 +0200
      Re: realpath quoting David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-05-03 07:20 +0200
        Re: realpath quoting Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-05-03 13:10 +0200
          Re: realpath quoting David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-05-03 20:50 +0200
  Re: realpath quoting Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2024-05-03 06:50 +0200

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