RE: [Gnu-arch-users] Trying out the new escaping version...

[Parker, Ron]

> From: Pierce T.Wetter III [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 9:06 AM
> To: address@hidden


>   Let's say you have a directory of files:
> 
>    "bad example.html"
>    "worse example .html"
>    "bad dir/bad example.html"
> 
>   With Pika escaping, you might think you could do this:
> 
>    tla add bad\(sp)example.html

Not something I would have considered typing in the first place.  Why make
things harder on myself, when I am already habitualized to do what you point
out next.

>    tla add bad\ example.html
>    tla add "bad example.html"
> 
>    Is actually easier!

Yes and in my experience when dealing with spaced-out file names I am
already in the habit of typing 'bad example.html' or bad\ example.html.  I
don't see this as a problem and it works without tla having to do anything.

>    tla tree-lint -t
> 
>    will output
> 
>    bad\(sp)example.html
>    worse\(sp)example\(sp).html
>    bad\(sp)dir/bad\(sp)example.html

>   tla tree-lint -t | xargs -p -I % tla add %
> 
>    Will try to do:
> 
>    tla add bad(sp)example.html
> 
>    because xargs ate the \..

You betcha, but the following does work:

        tla tree-lint -t |sed 's=\\=\\\\=g'|xargs -p tla add

And at least in bash I can simplify that with the following alias[1]:

        alias targs='sed '\''s/\\/\\\\/g'\''|xargs'

Then,

        tla tree-lint -t |targs -p tla add

works just fine.

>    mkdir "pika escaping sucks"
>    cd "pika escaping sucks"
>    touch "yes it really does"
>    mkdir 'theory is !(practice)'
>    cd 'theory is !(practice)'
>    touch 'quotes " are good"
>    touch 'aren\'t they'

Being a masochist I almost took this bait just to make a point.  But, at
least the last two lines don't appear completely valid to me.  And, given
your apparent frustration level, I didn't want to guess what you were trying
to do.  Also, I need to build a hybrid cehteh-lode.leroy version.

[1] (Which, as an aside I believe points out just how inscrutable shell
escaping can become as well.  Don't even make me insert any part of that in
backquotes and have it do the right thing.)
-- 
Ron Parker

echo Quoth the shell, \"Nevermore.\"