From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <622cd382ec4c6954d89e831ccc90e07d@quanstro.net> Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 10:49:25 -0600 From: quanstro@quanstro.net To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] More 'Sam I am' MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: f9a28ef6-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 what i originally posted was clear and correct. i do not think your postings clarified anything. - erik On Fri Feb 10 08:21:00 CST 2006, bruce.ellis@gmail.com wrote: > well if i was doing the echo i would do > > echo 'X/''/w' > > yes it's 4 but clearer. > > brucee > > On 2/11/06, quanstro@quanstro.net wrote: > > if you want to write only the changed files with an rc > > script, you really do need 4 single quotes in a row. > > > > i use the change times on files, so writing only the changed files > > is important to me. > > > > - erik > > > > On Fri Feb 10 07:58:51 CST 2006, bruce.ellis@gmail.com wrote: > > > X w > > > or > > > X/'/w > > > > > > will suffice > > > brucee > > > > > > On 2/11/06, quanstro@quanstro.net wrote: > > > > i'm replying to the wrong message. but to answer the original problem, > > > > you /can/ script sam -d like this: > > > > > > > > { > > > > echo $script > > > > echo X:'''':w > > > > echo q > > > > } | sam -d $filelist > >