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

This is not a complete answer, but I find it useful sometimes to combine two types of quote for a single string by concatenating them, for example echo "$HOME"'/foo!?.*' .