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From: matt <matt@proweb.co.uk>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] 'find'
Date: Thu,  3 Jul 2003 13:57:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F042841.5080308@proweb.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F00600D.4060005@null.net>

Douglas A. Gwyn wrote:

> 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?

maybe we should have stuck with " as the delimeter

"don't you mean \" "

"that's what I said "" "

"oh sorry I thought you said &quot; "

"%22, are you mad?"

"what's wrong with Igo= ?"

'gah, I''ve had enough of this. I''m going'





  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-07-03 12:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-29 16:57 D. Brownlee
2003-06-29 16:59 ` Sape Mullender
2003-06-30 14:07   ` rog
2003-06-30 14:18     ` Scott Schwartz
2003-06-30 14:50       ` rog
2003-07-03  9:42         ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-07-03 10:03           ` Fco.J.Ballesteros, nemo
2003-07-03 15:14             ` rob pike, esq.
2003-07-03 12:57           ` matt [this message]
2003-07-03 16:59             ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-07-03 17:09               ` matt
2003-06-30 15:30       ` Dan Cross
2003-07-03 12:11     ` Kenji Arisawa
2003-06-29 18:11 ` Jack Johnson
2003-06-29 18:42   ` Dan Cross
2003-07-04 14:08   ` Ralph Corderoy
2003-07-05 18:38     ` Dan Cross
2003-07-06  3:11       ` boyd, rounin
2003-07-07  8:33         ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-07-07 10:49           ` boyd, rounin
2003-07-07 14:05             ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-07-07 15:46           ` rob pike, esq.
2003-07-07 19:18             ` Dan Cross
2003-07-07 19:26               ` David Presotto
2003-07-07 19:46                 ` Dan Cross
2003-07-07 19:08           ` Dan Cross
2003-07-07 19:21             ` Dan Cross
2003-07-08  8:31               ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-07-08 11:20                 ` Dan Cross
2003-07-06 16:12       ` Jack Johnson
2003-07-06 22:20       ` matt
2003-07-07 13:28       ` Ralph Corderoy
2003-07-07 19:13         ` Dan Cross
2003-06-30  7:47 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros, nemo
2003-06-30  7:55   ` boyd, rounin
2003-06-30 14:32 ` Dan Cross

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