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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: {arch} directory
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Tom Lord |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: {arch} directory |
Date: |
Wed, 24 Sep 2003 13:41:42 -0700 (PDT) |
> From: MJ Ray <address@hidden>
> So that's for bash. tcsh treats {arch} as if it said arch, AFAICT.
> rc uses braces to group commands.
In general: fight back against shells screwing up the namespace of
files by "taking over" various characters.
Baroque shell mechanisms can sometimes do a good job of making the
special interpretation of characters very context specific. That's
fine.
But there's lots of reasons to want to have all kinds of "funky file
names" -- the file system is, after all, a form of database. File
names are a primary key for that database. Limiting the space of
reasonably usable keys is lame.
Personally, I interact with shells mostly in emacs buffers. I happen
to mostly use bash and ash. I really don't know why it works out --
but it does -- that I generally don't have problems with strange
characters. Probably a large part of it (wrt bash) is that I rely on
Emacs', not bash's completion mechanisms. At least that's an
existence proof that shell interaction, with completion, doesn't have
to preclude lots of file names.
Shells can have $. We'll give them that :-)
-t
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: {arch} directory, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: {arch} directory, Robert Anderson, 2003/09/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: {arch} directory, MJ Ray, 2003/09/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: {arch} directory, Miles Bader, 2003/09/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: {arch} directory, Dustin Sallings, 2003/09/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: {arch} directory, Miles Bader, 2003/09/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: {arch} directory, Miles Bader, 2003/09/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: {arch} directory, MJ Ray, 2003/09/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: {arch} directory,
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- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: {arch} directory, Neil Stevens, 2003/09/24
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: {arch} directory, Bruce Stephens, 2003/09/24
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: {arch} directory, Neil Stevens, 2003/09/24
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