L A Walsh <w...@tlinx.org> writes: > W/cut+paste into target line, where URL is double-quoted. More often > than not, I find it safer to double-quote a URL than not, because, for > example, shells react badly to embedded spaces, ampersands and > question marks.
But of course, no URL contains an embedded space. If you double-quote, most shells have four special characters that are processed within double-quotes: " \ $ ` Of the four, only $ can appear in a URL. If you single-quote, most shells have only one special character, which ends the string: ' Unfortunately, it's allowed in URLs. So there's no quoting character which you can just put before and after a URL and be sure that your shell won't damage the URL. Dale
