Farid Hamjavar wrote:
> Greetings,
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> In my script I have to process variables whose values
> (happen to be file names) contains the '%' character
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> Since I have no control over how files are named,
> I was wondering if there is a way I can get around
> the situation which I am emulating through an example below:
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> # export filename=Hello%20World
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> # printf $filename
> bash: printf: `W': invalid format character

Provide a format string for printf...

$ filename="Hello%20World"
$ printf "%s\n" "$filename"'
Hello%20World


Janis

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