* Eric Blake wrote on Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 01:36:07PM CEST: > According to Paolo Bonzini on 8/31/2009 1:04 AM: > > > >> But maybe '%' has some merit, although it can occur in > >> unquoted filenames. > > > > I think we should go with '%' or maybe '!'. > > % can occur in URLs. I'd rather go with recommending ! (since many shells > require quoting it anyways to avoid history expansion).
That is a problem, too, as you can't use it within double-quotes in interactive bash shells; while one should single-quote sed programs if possible, it is inconvenient to do so if parts of the sed program are expanded variables (which is exactly likely in the case where file names occur which you haven't escaped properly). Cheers, Ralf
