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Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 01:15:19 +1100
From: Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] More 'Sam I am'
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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 <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 <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
>