From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED, HTML_MESSAGE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 3194 invoked from network); 5 Jan 2023 00:07:32 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (50.116.15.146) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 5 Jan 2023 00:07:32 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81ADF42470; Thu, 5 Jan 2023 10:07:26 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mail-vk1-f182.google.com (mail-vk1-f182.google.com [209.85.221.182]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 21CC34246C for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2023 10:07:22 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mail-vk1-f182.google.com with SMTP id t2so7653623vkk.9 for ; Wed, 04 Jan 2023 16:07:22 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=ccil-org.20210112.gappssmtp.com; s=20210112; h=cc:to:subject:message-id:date:from:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=MLb2MOV8zYL4Je/Uo/fEoZn52C7RdkX86ltYCs8HuAM=; b=odKKz81sbCN+UsY2mZe/Hd0UpQC/0UqHRPKXydP1naC3pWL3q1SSu2wJ1hEcuqeZBv hIKU0S/YyKAj/1K7dvjlCBvcmAGwlaIL3jf+dw04bERb/elcknuKIu8LecMi+y5OMbnH bVbxwsKPCwEcU8ohcl9ocE47pcCsyjGzXiU4uRxyrzY95ZZqWz8kQjzgxRy9UozWIXy3 giNYybUCed4lemTJ83eUKTcBV61pxdTvomLubmBC2C5FdyTwpm1L+NP5n0lpCGY7MmQU 7yJBSjMsT+jVHt0qKSQcxwqegOor7Gh7WMX+tnOY0IBOReWY+jnP7NZX600NtSXZxyrZ 91lw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=cc:to:subject:message-id:date:from:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id :reply-to; bh=MLb2MOV8zYL4Je/Uo/fEoZn52C7RdkX86ltYCs8HuAM=; b=Pk55LCQlE6dzlYHQrwausYjjV3bYrBMWcoWlkODzppIhot2uD+051yxJiE2V94taYj hK1k0xvHJiKxqfUr2WW6WamWKiSWJ3tPHkONq9uuiWFADA8j83aRKnqWnyrvnFa+3Day QiSIkvFmrF2Rg4mwGZcLqsX3xS52tryzotTIOluUWEj+bhlDso9ZPpnw4WJ04bPAiN4y 6oppIiAOgeunSoJx0Cw2uP4EgMKX2BVsrIrKyuQeI5VBH4LfXLBvcU30168sApPndHap Br9uhlWIjkjJABqeS+dqc2HQDljThVWj3IR2Gd33u5ViQn93xBVSV8WjgjU5c3CToEAs pvcA== X-Gm-Message-State: AFqh2krHEIapZlJanlLQuJOP018Np2G97Hxx+Ga8iLMSHf8LtY4yalEZ b7tjF4h5UqHLtiQrxRu9NaIjPviOpg35Rm1j1TEkZrObsOjz8Q== X-Google-Smtp-Source: AMrXdXuGsyVz+1XYsVYPe8cx1I/mxrHlCoGWTQYBrTEJuD4hlCgCeJJYih1bupSvGopD4mLRWH6fccNaigu2OIGZnmw= X-Received: by 2002:a05:6122:811:b0:3d5:82bd:56dd with SMTP id 17-20020a056122081100b003d582bd56ddmr2673139vkj.12.1672877181250; Wed, 04 Jan 2023 16:06:21 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20230103201900.oR1Qq%steffen@sdaoden.eu> <325DF7E4-37BE-4432-9447-0B392B57DC69@iitbombay.org> <42B6E514-D210-49D3-A103-351F94563852@gmail.com> <20230104151952.7C2542064E@orac.inputplus.co.uk> <2b630b83-11de-eff1-d458-d8d145d9f19d@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2b630b83-11de-eff1-d458-d8d145d9f19d@gmail.com> From: John Cowan Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2023 19:06:10 -0500 Message-ID: To: Alejandro Colomar Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="000000000000244a9005f17912f8" Message-ID-Hash: 3FP3VUJ356DEN2AMTCKQVKCRFNGTMFLD X-Message-ID-Hash: 3FP3VUJ356DEN2AMTCKQVKCRFNGTMFLD X-MailFrom: cowan@ccil.org X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; header-match-tuhs.tuhs.org-0; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: Bakul Shah , tuhs@tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: A few comments on porting the Bourne shell List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: --000000000000244a9005f17912f8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 3:47 PM Alejandro Colomar wrote: I wish shells didn't supoprt globbing, and that glob(1) would be a > standalone > program still today. It would simplify much of the quoting issues if most > characters were just characters to the shell. > I like the way the rc shell works: globbing is done, but any word in single quotes suppresses all interpretation (double quote has no meaning) --000000000000244a9005f17912f8 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable


On We= d, Jan 4, 2023 at 3:47 PM Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com> wrote:

I wish shells didn't supoprt globbing, and that glob(1) woul= d be a standalone
program still today.=C2=A0 It would simplify much of the quoting issues if = most
characters were just characters to the shell.

I like the way the rc shell works: globbing is = done, but any word in single quotes suppresses all interpretation (double q= uote has no meaning)
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