GIVEN: A string variable containing characters that are used by bash for expansion or as delimiters, e.g. > path="/this/path/contains whitespace/and/asterisk */myfile.txt" GOAL: I want to expand the variable in a way that those bash syntax elements are backslashed (or disabled but not simply quoted), i.e. the output of solution would be > solution $path /this/path/contains\… Read More How to excape special syntax characters in string variable in bash