From: forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] blanks in file names
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 09:22:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <739b151ea8420796e25d235fb6af992e@caldo.demon.co.uk> (raw)
>>: should be the character in the name, the quoting approach seems
>>: the only one that works properly, and we have some work to do
>>: to work out all the interactions with shell scanning (oh dear!), and changing
>>But it's not just the shell, almost *any* program reading file names would
>>have to deal with quoting. What has been a file name is changing after %q,
you stopped the quote just a little early:
to work out all the interactions with shell scanning (oh dear!), and changing
-> (i suspect) the input conventions of quite a few commands, but still, it's a finite task.
but i ought to have said `the input [and output] conventions ...'
it would be good to have some simple but consistent conventions for quoting data,
not particularly file names. it's true that it would probably affect many commands
(sort, sed, awk etc) but i think it might be worthwhile.
it's something that XML can't do properly for instance.
just amazing. all that effort for a revolution, and botched at the start.
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