How can I escape an arbitrary string for use as a command line argument in Bash?

Question

I have a list of strings and I want to pass those strings as arguments in a single Bash command line call. For simple alphanumeric strings it suffices to just pass them verb

Answer 1

Bash interprets exclamation marks only in interactive mode.

You can prevent this by doing:

set +o histexpand

Inside double quotes you must escape dollar signs, double quotes, backslashes and I would say that's all.