From: Romano <unobe@cpan.org>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] new rc parser: do we want it?
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2020 20:44:43 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <00009C5C-5080-47F6-BCBE-C9495B739AAB@cpan.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5EF01FE4B564E504DD635D7E391EE0C8@ewsd.inri.net>
There is a parenthetical comment on page 90 of "The UNIX Programming Environment":
"(Originally, assignments anywhere in the command line were passed to the command, but this interfered with dd(1).)"
On October 7, 2020 3:54:20 AM UTC, sl@stanleylieber.com wrote:
>> and unquoted '=' is allowed after the
>> first word:
>>
>> echo a=b
>
>fwiw, when aiju suggested this a couple years ago i made a
>big stink about how this breaks the predictable quoting
>rules, but if rsc is dispensing with regularity, i don't
>know what to say anymore. i suppose it's just one more thing to
>remember.
>
>sl
next parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-12 20:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <5EF01FE4B564E504DD635D7E391EE0C8@ewsd.inri.net>
2020-10-12 20:44 ` Romano [this message]
2020-10-15 10:11 ` Ethan Gardener
2020-10-15 12:11 ` Stanley Lieber
2020-10-15 16:41 ` Romano
2020-10-15 17:22 ` Anthony Martin
2020-10-15 23:14 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2020-10-15 23:32 ` Stanley Lieber
[not found] <1975289B8C108B2FCF360524D16AA25B@ewsd.inri.net>
2020-10-07 10:00 ` Ethan Gardener
[not found] <01DB736907F1AF8292BF2D9C25564677@ewsd.inri.net>
2020-10-07 4:46 ` ori
2020-10-07 13:06 ` kvik
2020-10-07 3:15 ori
2020-10-07 3:54 ` [9front] " sl
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