I'm afraid quotes are the way to go. The alternatives are basically escaping (which looks even worse) or using a different language. The book also mentions a fe

I'm afraid quotes are the way to go. The alternatives are basically escaping (which looks even worse) or using a different language. The book also mentions a few more tricks you probably want to know about for dealing with the really tricky stuff, like filenames starting with a hyphen or ending with a newline.