[Cook] Escaping characters for the shell command line

[Henderson, Michael D]

Okay, this is driving me nuts. Is there an easy way to escape arguments for the command line? I'm trying to drive the ident string for my files, but trying to figure out how to escape this string is driving me nuts.

  Project = foo;
  Ver = 0.0.0;
  cpp_flags = -DPKG_IDENT\=\"\\\"\\n@(#)[Project]-[Ver] \\\" __FILE__ \\\"  \\\" __DATE__ \\\" \\\" __TIME__\\\"\\n\\\"\";

It took me about 15 minutes to plug through this, using trial and error. Is there a simpler way to do this?

If you want a sample ident.cpp, try a file with just the following in it

  static const char *myIdent = PKG_IDENT;

Thanks,
Mike

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