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February 2, 2013 17:08
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BASH function to escape all ' ' characters in a string, e.g. for formatting a file name for use over scp
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| #!/usr/bin/env bash | |
| function escapeSpaces () { | |
| if [[ -n $1 ]]; then | |
| string=`echo $1 | sed -r 's/[ ]+/\\\\\\ /g'` | |
| echo "$string" | |
| fi | |
| } |
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