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From: ori@eigenstate.org
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] [PATCH] awk: add %q format for quoted strings (see quote(2))
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2021 12:55:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <133E5FC5E7881988426C146233AB5F7D@eigenstate.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8b7fd75a-c7f2-476a-8872-aa42e6d07eb0@www.fastmail.com>

Quoth james palmer <james@biobuf.link>:
> this one comes in handy for building bulk rename scripts.
> patch for git/import attached.
> 
> - james
> 

I think it makes sense to add this, though I'm
not sure how much we want to diverge from upstream.

Ape would get this by accident, but it's a superset
of what posix needs.

going the other way would also be neat:

	ls -l | awk -Q {print $NF}



  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-08-23 19:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-11 21:24 james palmer
2021-08-12 21:29 ` Steve Simon
2021-08-18 13:23   ` james palmer
2021-08-24  9:45     ` [9front] " Pavel Renev
2021-08-13  6:43 ` unobe
2021-08-18 13:10   ` james palmer
2021-08-23 16:55 ` ori [this message]
2021-08-24  4:31   ` ori

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