Passing AppleScript string variable to shell script

I have a script which uses the md5 command line utility to make convenient-sized hashes of some very long strings. Right now I save each string in a temporary text file which is then referenced in the command line:
set hash to do shell script "md5 -q" & space & quote & POSIX path of tempFile & quote
This works well, but I wonder if it isn't a little inefficeint, re-writing the temporary file with each new string. md5 has a -s option, which allows the string data to be placed directly in the command line:
set myText to "Hello World"
set hash to do shell script "md5 -q -s" & space & quote & myText & quote
I know that if I do it this way I have to be careful to "escape" all occurrences of quote characters within myText to avoid command line syntax problems. This would not be difficult (in fact, it has already been done for another reason), but I have two questions:
(1) Are there any other ASCII characters that would have to be similarly escaped? I've tried strings with line breaks in them: Mac-, Unix-, and Windows-style breaks, and they all seem to work, but are there any hidden dangers to doing this?
(2) myText can get very long: say, 10,000 characters or more, so the command line would be correspondingly long. Is there any kind of limit on the length of command lines in the particular species of UNIX that is running under the Mac hood?
Many thanks.
Dual 1.2 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.8)
Dual 1.2 GHz

>(1) Are there any other ASCII characters that would have to be similarly escaped? I've tried strings with line breaks in them: Mac-, Unix-, and Windows-style breaks, and they all seem to work, but are there any hidden dangers to doing this?
There are many characters that can fall foul of a do shell script command, which is why Apple gave a convenient way of handling it via quoted form of:
<pre class=command>set myText to "Hello World"
set hash to do shell script "md5 -q -s " & quoted form of myText</pre>
This will take care of escaping various characters that might confound the shell.
>(2) myText can get very long: say, 10,000 characters or more, so the command line would be correspondingly long. Is there any kind of limit on the length of command lines in the particular species of UNIX that is running under the Mac hood?
It varies by OS version, but 262,000 bytes is the technical limit.

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