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Upset Unicorn answered on April 6, 2021 Popularity 10/10 Helpfulness 1/10

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use "\" to use the literal value of the next character (except newline)

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Contributed on Apr 06 2021

Upset Unicorn

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# Use Shell Parameter Expansion:
foo_esc="${foo@Q}"

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#You can use the %q format specifier with printf to take care of the variable escaping for you:
#source: https://serverfault.com/questions/625641/how-can-i-run-arbitrarily-complex-command-using-sudo-over-ssh

cmd="ls -al"
printf -v cmd_str '%q' "$cmd"
ssh user@host "bash -c $cmd_str"

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# just put it in single quotes
projectDirs='echo ~/GitHub ~/.config/nvim'

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