# HG changeset patch
# User Rik <address@hidden>
# Date 1322668178 28800
# Node ID 8893f3bf3ff0be8acf0bd539ab8c3a61d97ee0b8
# Parent  efa658122cc92b7124d19a0d1d8cac101b176291
ls.m: Allow wildcard patterns (*.m) in filename argument (Bug #34950)

* ls.m: Escape non-ordinary, non-globbing characters in filename argument.

diff -r efa658122cc9 -r 8893f3bf3ff0 scripts/miscellaneous/ls.m
--- a/scripts/miscellaneous/ls.m	Tue Nov 29 20:34:00 2011 -0800
+++ b/scripts/miscellaneous/ls.m	Wed Nov 30 07:49:38 2011 -0800
@@ -51,9 +51,7 @@
     args = tilde_expand (varargin);
 
     if (nargin > 0)
-      ## FIXME -- this will fail for filenames that contain single quote
-      ## characters...
-      cmd = sprintf (" '%s'", args{:});
+      cmd = sprintf (" %s", regexprep (args{:}, '([^\w.*?])', '\$1'));
     else
       cmd = "";
     endif