On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 2:25 AM, John Calcote <john.calcote@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've tried escaping with backslash, I've tried quoting with single quotes, > I've tried escaping within double quotes. Nothing works. It seems the > unquoting functionality will not be tricked into allowing a special > character to be escaped. > > Any ideas? I don't know if it works in your situation but another way of "escaping" a special character is to assign it to a shell variable, e.g. do bang='!' somewhere and later refer to ${bang}. This may work if variable expansion takes place at a later stage than when the special characters in question are processed. _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf