support for escaped characters

[codercowboy]

I'd like to see support for escaped characters, particularly in the echo command.

Per this guide, for example, to display a ">", the usual command would be "echo ^>".

I'm happy to help. How would I go about adding support for this to the shell? I dug around a little in command.c in an attempt to find the bit of code that handles the ">" for redirection, but didn't find anything super obvious quickly, so a pointer would be helpful.

[bartoldeman]

This was a three line change, so I just did it.

[codercowboy]

Thanks! To be clear, the resource I linked above lists a few more escapable characters in the table below such as &&, ^^, ^<, ^( and so on. The ">" escaped character is the one I wanted for my uses though, so thanks again!

[bartoldeman]

Yes the thing is that it's not necessary for the others since freecom does not support &, && etc, so echo & already shows an &, and echo ^& gives ^&. Then it's just a question which command interpreter you want to be compatible with.

[codercowboy]

Ah, good point! Thanks so much for the fix.