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Re: Bug#99807: diff doesn't handle filenames with spaces (fwd)
From: |
Hans-Bernhard Broeker |
Subject: |
Re: Bug#99807: diff doesn't handle filenames with spaces (fwd) |
Date: |
5 Jun 2001 12:32:14 GMT |
Miles Bader <address@hidden> wrote:
> Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:
>> One possibility to handle the problem in general is to adopt the
>> 'shell' quoting style of GNU ls. This is upward compatible with
>> POSIX. E.g.:
> Personally, I think it'd be easier to read, and simpler to implement, if
> diff just used a backslash before each odd character.
Try telling _that_ to all the guys out there using ports of diff or
patch on Microsoft-ish systems, where backslash is a directory
separator.
--
Hans-Bernhard Broeker (address@hidden)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.
- Re: Bug#99807: diff doesn't handle filenames with spaces (fwd), Paul Eggert, 2001/06/04
- Re: Bug#99807: diff doesn't handle filenames with spaces (fwd), Miles Bader, 2001/06/04
- Re: Bug#99807: diff doesn't handle filenames with spaces (fwd),
Hans-Bernhard Broeker <=
- Re: Bug#99807: diff doesn't handle filenames with spaces (fwd), Miles Bader, 2001/06/05
- Re: Bug#99807: diff doesn't handle filenames with spaces (fwd), Paul Eggert, 2001/06/05
- Re: Bug#99807: diff doesn't handle filenames with spaces (fwd), Miles Bader, 2001/06/05
- Re: Bug#99807: diff doesn't handle filenames with spaces (fwd), Hans-Bernhard Broeker, 2001/06/06
- Re: Bug#99807: diff doesn't handle filenames with spaces (fwd), Eli Zaretskii, 2001/06/06