Hi everyone,
Is there anywhere I can find a complete table of all characters that must be escaped by the various UNIX shells and scripting languages?
It seems every command/shell/scripting language has different rules about what characters must be escaped.
I do a lot of searching and replacing with files that contain all kinds of characters like ^{}[]()!@#$%&*_+=|\<>.,?~`:";' Did I cover them all?
Can anyone point me to a reference list/table of some kind that I can use. I would love to be able to confidently use sed, awk, perl, ksh or whatever to do string manipulation using these characters without constantly having to guess and experiment with what has to be escaped.
Thanks so much!!