David Kastrup <dak@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> a) Using system and shell-quoting the filename. Advantage: one can
> set EDITOR='"/home/dak/My Programs/editor"' and have it work.
> Disadvantage: shell-quoting a file name seems shell- and
> system-dependent.
What about this instead of quoting the argument?
sh -c '$EDITOR "$1" "$2"' editor +5 /path/to/file
(i.e. for C execvp("/bin/sh", "-c", "$EDITOR \"$1\" \"$2\"", "editor",
"+5", "/path/to/file"))
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