/bin/sh help needed

[david at thekramers.net (David Kramer)]

On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Rob Ransbottom wrote:

> 
> > > At some point hitherto, David Kramer hath spake thusly:
> > > > Every combination of single quotes, double quotes, and escaping seems to 
> > > > either send it all as one argument, or send it all as separate arguments, 
> > > > but each argument is quoted.
> 
> 
> It appears that single quotes for each parameter are what you want.
> The sh(1) man page is not very illuminating.
> 
> prog '*' '$msg' '\n' 'does all you want EXCEPT' \'

Once again, you are forgetting that what I have is one string with 
space-separated wildcards, not separate parameters.  Separate parameters 
is easy, and I would not proudly display the penguin on my desk if I could 
not figure out how to escape individual parameters.
 
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