From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3F042841.5080308@proweb.co.uk> From: matt User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030425 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] 'find' References: <20030630141857.15163.qmail@g.bio.cse.psu.edu>, <3F00600D.4060005@null.net> In-Reply-To: <3F00600D.4060005@null.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 13:57:37 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: e6a6de2e-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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 " " "%22, are you mad?" "what's wrong with Igo= ?" 'gah, I''ve had enough of this. I''m going'