BASH: Handling odd characters in a variable?

BASH Scripting. I'm trying to do a simple "mv" operation with a not-so-simple filename that contains special characters (as in brackets and hyphens). The filename itself is stored within a variable. The operation fails, and I can understand why, but I don't know how to get around it. [more inside]
posted by Ziggy Zaga on Nov 18, 2008 - 11 answers