08-29-2009
Similar background, but I may have 10 years head start largely due to time spent on VME and VMS.
Omg! Minix (nostalgic moment).
Remember OS/9 (not the MAC one)?
Notwithstanding our combined experience we will both have seen anomalous behaviour in Operating Systems.
I cannot believe that I am the only person to have encountered problems with unix commands dealing with space characters in filenames.
The question still remains: Why have I seen the "{}" problem before?
I am exploring Reborg's ideas which imply that some older shells were eating the {}. If proven, this would explain it. I don't have access to the source code to the various editions of "find" - unlike when I was working on enhancements to RSX.
Sorry Reborg, my example was pedantic and addressed to those who quote the POSIX definition of the expected behaviour of a command rather than to those of us who know how the command behaves in a shell enviroment if we use that command correctly.
As we all know from the roots of unix, if all else fails and the command does not do what you want - write your own.
Btw. jlliagre is cool and I am enjoying this debate.
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page_util_quote(n) Parser generator tools page_util_quote(n)
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
NAME
page_util_quote - page character quoting utilities
SYNOPSIS
package require page::util::quote ?0.1?
package require snit
::page::util::quote::unquote char
::page::util::quote::quote'tcl char
::page::util::quote::quote'tclstr char
::page::util::quote::quote'tclcom char
_________________________________________________________________
DESCRIPTION
This package provides a few utility commands to convert characters into various forms.
API
::page::util::quote::unquote char
A character, as stored in an abstract syntax tree by a PEG processor (See the packages grammar::peg::interpreter, grammar::me, and
their relations), i.e. in some quoted form, is converted into the equivalent Tcl character. The character is returned as the result
of the command.
::page::util::quote::quote'tcl char
This command takes a Tcl character (internal representation) and converts it into a string which is accepted by the Tcl parser, will
regenerate the character in question and is 7bit ASCII. The string is returned as the result of this command.
::page::util::quote::quote'tclstr char
This command takes a Tcl character (internal representation) and converts it into a string which is accepted by the Tcl parser and
will generate a human readable representation of the character in question. The string is returned as the result of this command.
The string does not use any unprintable characters. It may use backslash-quoting. High UTF characters are quoted to avoid problems
with the still prevalent ascii terminals. It is assumed that the string will be used in a double-quoted environment.
::page::util::quote::quote'tclcom char
This command takes a Tcl character (internal representation) and converts it into a string which is accepted by the Tcl parser when
used within a Tcl comment. The string is returned as the result of this command.
BUGS, IDEAS, FEEDBACK
This document, will undoubtedly contain bugs and other problems. Please report such in the category page of the Tcllib SF Trackers
[http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=12883]. Please also report any ideas for enhancements you may have.
KEYWORDS
page, parser generator, quoting, text processing
CATEGORY
Page Parser Generator
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2007 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>
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