From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>, Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Shell quoting
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:31:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4329CC02.8090104@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0509151153140.26803@g5.osdl.org>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> Does anybody really still use tcsh? It's a broken mess.
>
Yes.
> Junio's "sq_quote()" works wonderfully on any valid shells. The fact that
> tcsh expands ! even inside single quotes is just pure braindamage.
> You could expand "sq_quote" to handle '!' and '\' characters the exact
> same way it handles the single tick (end single-tick quoting, do \! or \\
> and start single-tick quoting again) and that might be good enough for
> tcsh.
It seems easier to just \-escape any special characters.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-15 19:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-15 5:50 [PATCH] Remove shell dependency in env.c H. Peter Anvin
2005-09-15 7:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-15 16:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-09-15 18:44 ` Shell quoting H. Peter Anvin
2005-09-15 19:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-15 19:31 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2005-09-15 19:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-15 20:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-09-15 19:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-15 20:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-16 19:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-15 19:33 ` [PATCH] rsh.c env and quoting cleanup, take 2 H. Peter Anvin
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