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From: "james palmer" <james@biobuf.link>
To: "9front mailing list" <9front@9front.org>
Subject: Re: [9front] [PATCH] awk: add %q format for quoted strings (see quote(2))
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 14:10:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <63da4387-8b0c-4837-a2f1-335afe26423e@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3497278D0871FBC0A15B747BEF058F8F@smtp.pobox.com>

Quoth unobe@cpan.org:
> Quoth james palmer <james@biobuf.link>:
> > this one comes in handy for building bulk rename scripts.
> > patch for git/import attached.
> 
> Neat.  If it is applied, could the man page be updated to reflect the
> change, too?

which man page? i don't see a list of format codes in awk(1). it refers to fprintf(2) which hasn't been changed. (surely it should be print(2) ?)

should i just add a sentence saying that the quote format has been installed?

- james

  reply	other threads:[~2021-08-18 23:27 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 [this message]
2021-08-23 16:55 ` ori
2021-08-24  4:31   ` ori

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