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Subject: Re: [9fans] dumb question
From: "rob pike, esq." <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 10:10:51 -0400
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	rm `{ls | grep -v precious}

	(which is now broken).

ls quotes its output, so i didn't see why this would fail.
Then I tried it:

rob%% date>'a b'
rob%% echo `{ls | grep ' '}
'a b'
rob%% rm `{ls | grep ' '}
rm: 'a: '''a' No such file or directory
rm: b': 'b''' No such file or directory
rob%%

it seems the shell can and should be fixed. i will entertain
proposals that include code.

-rob