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Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:48:09 +1000
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Borderless rio
From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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> I also have a question. I'm running this script to open rio with workspac=
es :
> %vx ; cat bin/rc/riows
> #!/bin/rc
>
> labels=3D$*
> if(test $#labels -lt 1)
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0labels=3D(1 2 3 4)
>
> rio.b -I -i'\
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0for(label in $labels)
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0window -miny 40 ''=
rio -i ''''label ''$label''''''''
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0# give time to set all the labels
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0sleep 0.5
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0window -dy 39 ''winwatch -e ''''^(winwatch|sta=
ts|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.

the better way is to make each one of your giant
quoted strings its own shell script.  that's more
useful too.

russ