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Re: quoting date strings
From: |
Steven N. Crane |
Subject: |
Re: quoting date strings |
Date: |
Thu, 15 Feb 2001 11:10:46 -0800 (PST) |
Hugh, Colin,
Thanks for the replies. I did try escaping with \'s but that didn't
work either. We use ksh. But I get the same thing with sh and zsh.
I suppose I could load bash and see what happens, but...
I've tried this on Solaris 5.7, HP-UX 10.2, AIX, IRIX, DEC-OSF1.
Same thing everywhere.
It looks like the shell is either sending quoted items as separate args
or RCS is somehow reparsing the input and tripping over blanks. I wrote
a quick little C program but it worked ok; quoted items were correctly
grouped as a single argument.
Maybe it's the way I built RCS, but that was 5 years ago and everything
else seems to work ok. (I actually noticed this problem a while back and
ignored it since I didn't use -d. Now I'd like to use it).
Still looking...
Thanks,
- Steven
On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Colin Brough wrote:
> I don't suppose its any consolation, but your exact command lines work
> fine for me - RCS 5.7 on a Redhat Linux 5.2 box, shell is bash version
> 1.14.7(1). What is your shell? Anything else funny in your
> environment?
>
> Cheers
>
> Colin
>
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