YSH addresses the "string safety" problem: What is YSH? https://oils.pub/ysh.html https://oils.pub/ysh.html I am writing a quoting module now, but the key po

YSH addresses the "string safety" problem: What is YSH? https://oils.pub/ysh.html https://oils.pub/ysh.html I am writing a quoting module now, but the key point is that it's a powerful enough language to do so. It is more like Python or JS; you don't have to resort to sed to parse and quote strings. I posted the quote-argv solution above -- in YSH it will likely be: var argv = :| ls 'arg with space' | # like bash argv=() ssh example.com $[quote.sh(argv)] But you can write such a function NOW if you like --- quote.sh follows the (subtle) idiom of replacing a single quote ' with '\'' which means it works on systems with remote POSIX sh, not just YSH ! e.g. "isn't" in POSIX shell is quoted as 'isn'\''t' which is these three word parts: 'isn' \' 't' YSH also has: - JSON, which can correctly round trip every Unicode string, without writing your own parsing functions - JSON8, an optional extension that can round trip every byte string you get from the Unix kernel https://oils.pub/release/latest/doc/j8-notation.html https://oils.pub/release/latest/doc/j8-notation.html