On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 16:58 -0500, stvs wrote: > > You can escape a character to remove its special properties or > > enclose the string containing it in single quotes. > > > Great, but how do I do that when I'm in a DIRECTORY that contains a special character? This is how this problem arises: there is a directory called 'foo?' in which there is the file bar.mpg. This fails: > > $ cd 'foo?' > $ wine cmd.exe bar.mpg > > WINE is unable to operate within the directory named 'foo?'. There is > no way for me to escape the directory's name in the (scripted) call to > wine. > Try this (tested, saved as xtest and made executable): <code> #!/bin/bash y=$(echo "$1" | sed -e 's/\?/\\?/') echo "y=$y" </code> $ xtest foo? y=foo\? so the following should work too: #!/bin/bash y=$(echo "$1" | sed -e 's/\?/\\?/') cd "$y" wine cmd.exe bar.mpg Martin
