On Fri, 28 Dec 2018 at 23:09 -0500, David Storrs wrote:
> I am using 'system' to offload some work onto wget and other
> applications in a few one-off scripts.  Is there an easy way to escape
> a string so it's suitable for usage in the shell?  Things like
> backwhacking all the quotes and relevant spaces and such.

Is avoiding the shell altogether an option? You could use "system*"

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Jack M. Rosenthal
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