getting single quotes from newLISP through the shell

[cormullion]

Not really a newLISP question, perhaps, but I'm struggling again so your help would be helpful...

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(set 'r (join (map char (sequence 32 127))))
(exec (string {echo '} r {'}))

sh: -c: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `('
sh: -c: line 1: `echo ' !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~''

I think it's that single quote, which you can't escape inside a single-quoted string, so you can't get it into a string that you can echo or pipe into a command. Is there a way?

[frontera000]

this is ugly but :

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(replace "'" r "\\x27")
(exec (string {echo -e '} r {'}))

[cormullion]

Great - thanks - it works for me (although it doesn't have elegance!). Still, that's Unix.