Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths)

On 26 February 2014 15:14, Frank Heckenbach <[email protected]> wrote:
> Tim Murphy wrote:
>
>> Note that this use of cat is not "space safe"
>> > FOO = a'()'b
>> > all: $(FOO); cat $(FOO)
>>
>> It should be:
>> > all: $(FOO); cat "$(FOO)"
>>
>> ... in which case the shell would act the same as make does.
>
> But not in the way intended, because it would act on a file called
> «a'()'b», including quotes, while this was meant to refer to a file
> called «a()b». You see this more clearly if you consider the planned
> use of backslash escapes:

I think I'm making the the same point as you accidentally.  Hence I
also prefer $[] or $(quote)

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