I am having some issues with using the id3 (v2) tagging functionality of LAME 
3.91.   I am running RedHat Linux 7.2, bash shell.

Several questions:

1.)  By mere experimentation, I have found that the tag text can be qualified 
with " or ' characters.  However, I have run into a problem...what happens if 
the tag text _contains_ the " or ' characters?   I have been able to get this 
one scenario to work:

 -tt 'this is "the tag"'

But any ideas on how to get " and ' into the tag?  Are there any other text 
qualifiers that can be used?

2.) At some point in the past, I could swear there was a way to tell LAME to 
read it's command line options/switches from a file?   But I can find no 
reference to that option now.  Perhaps this would be a way around question #1 
above?

One of the problems seems to be the bash shell interpreting special characters 
when I am not intending it to.  For example:

This works fine: 

 lame --add-id3v2 --tt 'this "is the tag!"'

But this gives me the following error:

 lame --add-id3v2 --tt "this is the tag!"
 bash: !": event not found

Remove the ! and of course it works fine:

 lame --add-id3v2 --tt "this is the tag"

On the other hand, this works fine:

 lame --add-id3v2 --tt 'this is the tag!'

Any suggestions would be MUCH appreciated.  

Thank you,
Matt
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