Issue 3623: lilypond-book fails with file names containing shell-special characters

diff --git a/scripts/lilypond-book.py b/scripts/lilypond-book.py
index 9c49508d7a85bfba912400108a31d345be678b97..8dea1fc1a795623d446582a690a4c625f9918f18 100644 (file)
--- a/scripts/lilypond-book.py
+++ b/scripts/lilypond-book.py
@@ -443,7 +443,10 @@ def split_output_files(directory):
     Return value is a set of strings.
     """
     files = []
-    for subdir in glob.glob (os.path.join (directory, '[a-f0-9][a-f0-9]')):
+    def globquote(x):
+        return re.sub ("[][*?]", r"[\g<0>]", x)
+    for subdir in glob.glob (os.path.join (globquote (directory),
+                                           '[a-f0-9][a-f0-9]')):
         base_subdir = os.path.split (subdir)[1]
         sub_files = [os.path.join (base_subdir, name)
                      for name in os.listdir (subdir)]