Thank you for all the help, Peter.


On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@samsung.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, 8 May 2015 05:37:59 +0200
> Jesper Nygårds <jesper.nygards@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I found a solution to my particular problem. I can quote the dir, and
> then
> > remove the quoting of the spaces afterwards.
>
> Yes, or the other approach is quote only the metacharacters (which don't
> include space) in the first place.  I think there may be some examples
> lying around using ${...//.../...}.  Oh, yes, here's one from _rm:
>
> ${line//(#m)[\[\]()\\*?#<>~\^\|]/\\$MATCH}
>
> It would be overall simpler not to pass the pattern and a fixed string
> around in the same variable, involving a bit of structural change.
>
> pws
>