From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" Message-ID: <3F00600D.4060005@null.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20030630141857.15163.qmail@g.bio.cse.psu.edu>, Subject: Re: [9fans] 'find' Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 09:42:20 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: e662c478-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 rog@vitanuova.com wrote: > and i guess awk printf should be given a %q option > and maybe echo should have a -q option too > and du should print its output quoted > and pwd should too > and maybe cp should have an option ... Does this suggest why quoting (prompted by a limitation at the "shell" level) was the wrong idea?