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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 07:39:19 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Borderless rio
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> labels=$*
> if(test $#labels -lt 1)
> 	labels=(1 2 3 4)
>
> rio.b -I -i'\
> 	for(label in $labels)
> 		window -miny 40 ''rio -i ''''label ''$label''''''''
> 	# give time to set all the labels
> 	sleep 0.5
> 	window -dy 39 ''winwatch -e ''''^(winwatch|stats|faces)'''''''
>
> My question is: what is the better way to avoid that lot of quotes? I
> can think of variables or functions, but I wonder what is the idiom
> for nested quotes.

you could use here documents, but i don't really think that would be
better.

it's interesting that duff's shell does fall into the same quoting pit as
bourne's, just in more esoteric situations.

- erik