GothenburgBitFactory / GothenburgBitFactory/taskwarrior

documetation fails to quote shell metacharacters

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Description

Please change all your documentation to quote shell meta-characters
when used as arguments to task commands. For example in the FAQ you
say incorrectly:

$ task /[A-Z]../ list

If your ROOT file system happens to contain any of the directories
"`/A..`" through "`/Z..`" the shell will GLOB match that pattern and ruin
your task command line. Always quote shell meta-characters:

$ task '/[A-Z]../' list

Also, those of us who run our shells with "`failglob`" turned on will get an
immediate error when the shell tries to expand a GLOB pattern and fails.
Always quote shell meta-characters.

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