Useful POSIX shell functions: cmd and myeval

1 · Shane Mulligan · June 1, 2021, noon
Summary I talk about two shell scripts I use to simplify the handling of arguments, quotations, spaces and escape codes within shell scripts. They are POSIX-compliant, handle unicode correctly and cmd is so useful I think it should be a builtin. Before you ask: What about double quotes? See my string-quoting utility, q https://mullikine.github.io/posts/string-quoting-utility/ The string-quoting utility is used to make a script that generates double quotes. That is out of scope of this article....