Reopened ticket. Will get a patch out shortly. If you want, you can run the following to make sure it'll work: quote() { case "$1" in '') echo "''" ;; *) echo "$1" | sed 's/\([^a-zA-Z0-9.:_\-\/]\)/\\\1/g' ;; esac; } x=\(bar\) mkdir \(foo\) cd \(foo\) pwd="`pwd`" ldlibpth="x=` quote "$pwd" `:` quote "$x" `" echo "$ldlibpth" Should give: x=/home/ikegami/\(foo\):\(bar\)Thread Previous | Thread Next