From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] dumb question
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 15:42:33 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D1C7E27.1FE4528E@null.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4d7f9df5442409dfaf2c76c812c4c7a5@plan9.bell-labs.com>
"rob pike, esq." wrote:
> ls quotes its output, ...
> it seems the shell can and should be fixed.
I don't see how to make it consistent with ls quoting.
The root problem seems to be that ` applies parsing
using white-space delimiters both when it is desired
and when it isn't desired. What I think will be
necessary is finer-grained control over "wordization".
In the Bourne shell, that is done by setting IFS.
It would probably suffice to consider newline reserved
as a delimiter; while I have often found spaces in
filenames to be useful, newline in filenames has never,
in my experience, occurred except by accident. So
"IFS='<newline>' sh whatever" should keep space-
containing words as units in a similar usage. The
question is, what would be a similar mechanism for rc
that you'd find acceptable?
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2002-06-28 14:10 rob pike, esq.
2002-06-28 15:42 ` Douglas A. Gwyn [this message]
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2003-07-15 0:37 [9fans] Dumb question Dan Cross
2003-07-15 3:23 ` boyd, rounin
2002-07-05 9:43 [9fans] dumb question Geoff Collyer
2002-07-01 11:03 rog
2002-07-02 8:53 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
[not found] <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
2002-06-28 16:49 ` rob pike, esq.
2002-06-29 2:23 ` Scott Schwartz
2002-06-28 16:39 rob pike, esq.
2002-06-28 16:31 rog
2002-06-28 16:14 rob pike, esq.
2002-06-28 14:08 rog
2002-06-28 7:52 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2002-06-27 22:59 Geoff Collyer
2002-06-28 4:32 ` Lucio De Re
2002-06-27 18:38 forsyth
2002-06-28 8:45 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-06-27 17:07 rog
2002-06-27 17:07 forsyth
2002-06-27 16:33 ` Sam
2002-06-27 14:43 Richard Miller
2002-06-27 14:33 forsyth
2002-06-27 13:20 rob pike, esq.
2002-07-05 9:07 ` Maarit Maliniemi
2002-06-27 13:19 rob pike, esq.
2002-06-27 13:21 ` david presotto
2002-06-27 15:40 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-06-27 12:27 rog
2002-06-27 12:12 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2002-06-27 12:06 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2002-06-27 11:13 ` Sam
2002-06-27 11:15 ` Sam
2002-06-27 10:29 nigel
2002-06-27 9:44 Stephen Parker
2002-06-27 9:43 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2002-06-27 9:36 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2002-06-27 1:22 okamoto
2002-06-27 1:05 okamoto
2002-06-26 23:08 forsyth
[not found] ` <171e27d5f2cfd12a9303117e58818e5b@plan9.bell-labs.com>
2002-06-26 18:27 ` Andrew Stitt
2002-06-26 17:39 ` Sam
2002-06-27 9:17 ` Andrew Stitt
2002-06-27 9:33 ` Ish Rattan
2002-06-27 9:59 ` Lucio De Re
2002-06-27 10:05 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-06-27 10:21 ` Lucio De Re
2002-06-27 15:40 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-06-27 16:57 ` Lucio De Re
2002-06-28 8:45 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-06-28 9:31 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-06-28 14:30 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-06-28 15:06 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-07-01 9:46 ` Ralph Corderoy
2002-06-27 15:36 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-06-27 15:12 ` Sam
2002-06-28 8:44 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-06-26 22:07 ` Micah Stetson
2002-06-26 22:59 ` Chris Hollis-Locke
2002-06-27 0:03 ` Micah Stetson
2002-06-27 0:44 ` Micah Stetson
2002-06-27 9:17 ` Ralph Corderoy
2002-06-27 9:48 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-06-27 10:07 ` John Murdie
2002-06-27 15:40 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-06-26 19:04 rog
2002-06-26 19:00 Warrier, Sadanand (Sadanand)
2002-06-27 0:13 ` Steve Arons
2002-06-26 18:41 forsyth
2002-06-26 18:40 David Gordon Hogan
2002-06-26 17:53 rog
2002-06-26 17:45 rob pike, esq.
2002-06-27 9:16 ` Andrew Stitt
2002-06-27 9:17 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-06-26 19:53 ` arisawa
2002-06-27 11:43 ` Ralph Corderoy
2002-06-27 11:04 ` Sam
2002-06-26 8:55 Stephen Parker
2002-06-26 17:18 ` Andrew Stitt
[not found] <nemo@plan9.escet.urjc.es>
2002-06-25 17:06 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2002-06-25 18:01 ` Scott Schwartz
2002-06-26 8:41 ` Andrew Stitt
2002-06-26 9:14 ` Nigel Roles
2002-06-26 17:41 ` Andrew Stitt
2002-06-26 16:08 ` Ish Rattan
2002-06-25 16:48 Andrew Stitt
2002-06-26 8:45 ` arisawa
2002-06-26 17:36 ` Andrew Stitt
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