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Re: Escaping shell characters in a string

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From: Michał Politowski <mpol@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Zsh Users <zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Escaping shell characters in a string
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 19:08:00 +0200
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On Tue,  9 Sep 2003 12:52:02 -0400, Steve Talley wrote:
[...]
> % fred="a [ a * a ? a \ a"
[...]
> That is, given a variable, how can I best escape all of the special
> shell characters within?  Is there a variable modifier I can use that
> automatically escapes all special characters?

I believe ${(q)fred} is what you want.

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