+(defun shell-quote-wildcard-pattern (pattern)
+ "Quote characters special to the shell in PATTERN, leave wildcards alone.
+
+PATTERN is assumed to represent a file-name wildcard suitable for the
+underlying filesystem. For Unix and GNU/Linux, the characters from the
+set [ \\t\\n;<>&|()#$] are quoted with a backslash; for DOS/Windows, all
+the parts of the pattern which don't include wildcard characters are
+quoted with double quotes.
+Existing quote characters in PATTERN are left alone, so you can pass
+PATTERN that already quotes some of the special characters."
+ (save-match-data
+ (cond
+ ((memq system-type '(ms-dos windows-nt))
+ ;; DOS/Windows don't allow `"' in file names. So if the
+ ;; argument has quotes, we can safely assume it is already
+ ;; quoted by the caller.
+ (if (or (string-match "[\"]" pattern)
+ ;; We quote [&()#$'] in case their shell is a port of a
+ ;; Unixy shell. We quote [,=+] because stock DOS and
+ ;; Windows shells require that in some cases, such as
+ ;; passing arguments to batch files that use positional
+ ;; arguments like %1.
+ (not (string-match "[ \t;&()#$',=+]" pattern)))
+ pattern
+ (let ((result "\"")
+ (beg 0)
+ end)
+ (while (string-match "[*?]+" pattern beg)
+ (setq end (match-beginning 0)
+ result (concat result (substring pattern beg end)
+ "\""
+ (substring pattern end (match-end 0))
+ "\"")
+ beg (match-end 0)))
+ (concat result (substring pattern beg) "\""))))
+ (t
+ (let ((beg 0))
+ (while (string-match "[ \t\n;<>&|()#$]" pattern beg)
+ (setq pattern
+ (concat (substring pattern 0 (match-beginning 0))
+ "\\"
+ (substring pattern (match-beginning 0)))
+ beg (1+ (match-end 0)))))
+ pattern))))
+
+