Hi,
is it possible in a Simon shell script filter (any of zsh/sh/ksh/bash/tcsh/csh would be ok, probably even python would be ok) to pipe the complete, unmodified input text to some kind of utility, in a way similar to:

echo "{FilterInputText}" | myutility

This looks the right way, except when FilterInputText contains such characters as quotes, dollar, ampersand, (e.g. HTML code).

echo '{FilterInputText}'  | myutility

will also fail if single or double quotes are present in input text, not speaking of $, & and < >.

The script's stdin is not set to the input text, either.

This is a recurrent issue in all shells, and it has NO shell-level solution.

Does Simon include some way to solve this? Such as escaped string/environment variable/temp file/<insert some idea here>? If not, I hope it will in a (near-)future release...

Thanks in advance,
Pascal;