Re: how to adapt a path name to the OS

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic.brenta@insalien.org>]

 writes:
> thanks for your help
> for unix how can i know all the special chars that have to be preceded
> by a '\' ?

The quotes are only needed to protect certain characters from the
shell.  So, you need to quote only if you want to pass the string to a
shell.  In the case of bash, I suggest you give up on quoting and
simply enclose the path in single quotes (').

If you want to pass the string to Ada.Text_IO.Open to open a file,
then you don't need quoting at all.

HTH

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.