escape double quotes in --remote

Question

I am using 'vifm --remote' in a bash script. Here is my bash script:

#!/bin/bash
read -e -p "Enter folder name: " dirName
mkdir "$dirName"
vifm --server-name vifm --remote +"goto \"$dirName\""

This creates new folder for inputs even if they have space, single quotes and/or double quotes. However, I couldn't manage to get the last line (vifm --remote) to work if the input has double quote. How can I escape double quotes in the input arguments that are used in vifm --remote command?

Thank you

Answer 1

You can try using printf:

vifm --server-name vifm --remote +"goto $(printf %q "$dirName")"

Not sure if it will work in all cases though.

Comments

YES, this works, thank you!

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This works great for folders, but it doesn't work for files even if they don't have any special characters. Do you have any suggestions?

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Never-mind, the issue was becuase of the crash I reported in my other post. I killed vifm and tmux and now is all good. Thank you