Re: protect spaces and/or globs

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2021-02-09 4:22 p.m., Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
> For the less clairvoyant of us, your refusal to reveal anything but
> the smallest slice of your actual code makes it rather difficult
> to help.
I'm trying to keep is as simple as possible because the totality of the 
thing doesn't
matter, just the specific problem.  When a function argument will end up 
making
an argument to grep, and the argument to grep must have single quotes, 
but the single
quotes typed in the function argument are stripped off. What's the 
solution? grep must
have " $ grep 'file name'  " with intact quotes but zsh always strips 
them off.   There
must be a solution.  Or perhaps I'm stuck with " $ grep 'file\ name' -- 
seems the single
quotes preserve the backlash which in turn forces 'file name' to be a 
single word as
wanted.  It's ok, but I wonder if there's a better way.  I thought the 
(q) flag might
do it.  Memory tickles that I learned how to do this once.

Hey, just fiddling around with it right now and:

$ g ,H 'execute' "'g,46,w4 now default'" f
... double quote the single quotes and the single quotes remain. Logical 
too, outer
quotes will be stripped, so just throw in another set.  Final grep is:

GREP_COLOR='01;33' grep --color=always -iFIHn -d skip -- 'execute' 
'g,46,w4 now default' f
... all good.