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Subject: Re: how to adapt a path name to the OS
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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic.brenta@insalien.org>
Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 19:03:54 +0200
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 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

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Ludovic Brenta.