Timeline for value of $VAR already contains backtick and/or single quote inside. How to handle it? How to properly pass $VAR to program? [duplicate]
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| Mar 30 at 12:15 | history | edited | Sotto Voce | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Fixed typo in title: backtik -> backtick
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| Mar 30 at 11:38 | comment | added | dAllARA | Dear members all... Should I edit my question in order to clarify the actual issue? Let me know. | |
| Mar 30 at 11:35 | history | closed |
muru Kamil Maciorowski MC68020 CommunityBot |
Duplicate of Prevent wildcard expansion on find | |
| Mar 30 at 11:34 | answer | added | dAllARA | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 30 at 11:23 | comment | added | dAllARA |
@muru I didn't know the exact -name (or -iname) behaviour in find; you're right, indeed. Thanks, dear! unix.stackexchange.com/questions/773436/… yes! This helped me
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| Mar 30 at 10:36 | comment | added | ilkkachu |
Too bad find doesn't have the equivalent of grep -F. Not even in GNU find, even though it supports various regex dialects via the -regextype option.
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| Mar 30 at 8:30 | history | edited | muru |
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| Mar 30 at 8:30 | comment | added | Kamil Maciorowski |
"$song" and "${song}" (and "*$song*", if you want to pass asterisks) are properly quoted and the value of the variable cannot break them. Bash cannot store null bytes in a variable, but filenames (pathnames in general) also cannot contain null bytes, so this shouldn't be a problem in this usage case. AFAIK everything else can be stored in a variable. If your code does not work as expected, it's not because allegedly "the variable cannot be quoted correctly"; it can.
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| Mar 30 at 8:30 | history | edited | muru |
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| Mar 30 at 8:28 | comment | added | muru |
I'd bet that the problem isn't the quotes. The problem is the text in [...], which is a shell glob, e.g., [2000] matches a 2 or 0, [CONCERTI] matches C, O, N, E, R, T or I.
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| Mar 30 at 8:10 | history | asked | dAllARA | CC BY-SA 4.0 |