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Tipps and tricks for the command line
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Tips and tricks for the command line

How to generate a path with escaped spaces and special characters

printf %q "~/my/very stupid/path/with spaces/"

output will be:

\~/my/very\ stupid/path/with\ spaces/%

Don't use escaped path within quotation marks "" or ''!

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