From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: nesting issue
Date: Sun, 5 May 2024 15:22:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <363c098d-f84e-4797-a0cc-24c43630ce66@eastlink.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21d74774-78ab-4560-ac66-3c690731d260@app.fastmail.com>
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On 2024-05-05 13:45, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
> Useful and sensible, but not "necessary" by any means. One of the
Useful and sensible are good enough for me.
> reasons the legacy `...` form is discouraged is that in some shells
> it requires nested double quotes to be backslash-quoted.
>
> % ksh -c 'echo "`echo \"a b c\"`"'
That's sadistic. How you guys keep the parser sane is beyond my imagining.
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-05-04 19:36 Ray Andrews
2024-05-05 3:20 ` Bart Schaefer
2024-05-05 5:39 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2024-05-05 5:40 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2024-05-05 13:52 ` Ray Andrews
2024-05-05 20:14 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2024-05-05 22:18 ` Ray Andrews
2024-05-05 23:26 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2024-05-06 1:51 ` Ray Andrews
2024-05-06 3:22 ` Bart Schaefer
2024-05-06 13:01 ` Ray Andrews
2024-05-06 3:43 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2024-05-06 13:09 ` Ray Andrews
2024-05-05 13:13 ` Ray Andrews
2024-05-05 19:44 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2024-05-05 20:14 ` Ray Andrews
2024-05-05 20:45 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2024-05-05 22:22 ` Ray Andrews [this message]
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