From 3a58988e4acf4fd3a0d0afdd3e3de89c17d01286 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lincoln Stein <lincoln.stein@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2022 13:46:50 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] escape single quotes in the command stream so as not to
 confuse the shlex parser

---
 scripts/dream.py | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/dream.py b/scripts/dream.py
index fb8fec2384..ff1fbcdd05 100755
--- a/scripts/dream.py
+++ b/scripts/dream.py
@@ -107,6 +107,10 @@ def main_loop(t2i,parser,log,infile):
         if command.startswith(('#','//')):
             continue
 
+        # before splitting, escape single quotes so as not to mess
+        # up the parser
+        command = command.replace("'","\\'")
+
         try:
             elements = shlex.split(command)
         except ValueError as e: