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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 07:59:45 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] $ifs equivalent in mk?
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> thanks, tried and works.
>
>
> used sed for quoting; end result is perl-ugly:
>
> alljs=`{find -name '*.js' | 9 sed 's/''/''''/g; s/^|$/''/g' }
> or
> alljs=`{find -name '*.js' | 9 sed 's/^|$|''/&''/g' }

great.  glad that worked.  though it is always a bit sad
when one has to outwit one's tools.

as you may have noticed from the example, there are
some pitfalls (echo $x|wc got the wrong answer).

- erik