From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <333b0cc60394b501dc51077023f483c9@plan9.escet.urjc.es> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] So, do you space or not? From: Fco.J.Ballesteros MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 11:04:42 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: c4500860-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 I can't see the need for unquote. Isn't it easier just not to use %q in ls and run ls instead of ls -l|uq|awk '{print $10}' The rationale for q (quote) was that you still may want to get the name quoted to print a command that may be sent to rc, like in: echo rm `{q *.old}