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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Problem wth spec chars in script Post 303002298 by jim mcnamara on Monday 21st of August 2017 06:19:07 PM
Old 08-21-2017
Your answer is somewhat evasive.

Two ways:
1. use the printf method to embed punctuation and other odd characters. Unless you are using windows do not put \r in anything. expect gets a return from bash reading the script -- and it is a newline, \n

2. you can escape characters ( \ escape in front of each character, so \\ is read by the shell as a backslash, not escape). The shell takes them as literal characters, not some shell command -- example \*\# is an asterisk and an octothorpe (pound sign). Not a wild card and not a start of a comment.
 

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SIEVESHELL(1)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					     SIEVESHELL(1)

NAME
sieveshell - remotely manipulate sieve scripts SYNOPSIS
sieveshell [--user=user] [--authname=authname] [--realm=realm] [--exec=script] server[:port] sieveshell --help DESCRIPTION
sieveshell allows users to manipulate their scripts on a remote server. It works via MANAGESIEVE, a work in progress. The following commands are recognized: list list scripts on server. put <filename> upload script to server. get <name> [<filename>] get script. if no filename display to stdout delete <name> delete script. activate <name> activate script. deactivate deactivate all scripts. OPTIONS
-u user, --user=user The authorization name to request; by default, derived from the authentication credentials. -a authname, --authname=authname The user to use for authentication (defaults to current user). -r realm, --realm=realm The realm to attempt authentication in. -e script, --exec=script Instead of working interactively, run commands from script, and exit when done. REFERENCES
[MANAGESIEVE] Martin, T.; "A Protocol for Remotely Managing Sieve Scripts", draft-ietf-managesieve-03.txt, Mirapoint, Inc.; May 2001, work in progress. AUTHOR
Tim Martin <tmartin@mirapoint.com>, and the rest of the Cyrus team <cyrus-bugs@andrew.cmu.edu>. perl v5.16.3 2014-06-10 SIEVESHELL(1)
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