On 2006-08-21, Jerry Fleming wrote:
> I have a list (about 600) of files whose names contain special
> characters, such as spaces, &, (. Under bash, they have to be escaped. I
> was wondering if there is any command, or even a piece of sed, which can
> be used to escape them.

How are you using the names?

The usual method is to quote the file name:

for file in ./*
do
cat "$file"
done

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