You could use a shell that magically handles all the escaping for you either while typing/pasting for some programs (curl, grep etc) when not in quotes and tab

You could use a shell that magically handles all the escaping for you either while typing/pasting for some programs (curl, grep etc) when not in quotes and tab completes with a selector so you don't have to think about spaces, special chars, etc: http://paste.click/VfUUWv http://paste.click/VfUUWv