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Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special c
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Tim Murphy |
Subject: |
Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths) |
Date: |
Wed, 26 Feb 2014 15:53:09 +0000 |
On 26 February 2014 15:14, Frank Heckenbach <address@hidden> wrote:
> Tim Murphy wrote:
>
>> Note that this use of cat is not "space safe"
>> > FOO = a'()'b
>> > all: $(FOO); cat $(FOO)
>>
>> It should be:
>> > all: $(FOO); cat "$(FOO)"
>>
>> ... in which case the shell would act the same as make does.
>
> But not in the way intended, because it would act on a file called
> «a'()'b», including quotes, while this was meant to refer to a file
> called «a()b». You see this more clearly if you consider the planned
> use of backslash escapes:
I think I'm making the the same point as you accidentally. Hence I
also prefer $[] or $(quote)
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- Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), (continued)
- Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Eli Zaretskii, 2014/02/25
- Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Paul Smith, 2014/02/25
- Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Eli Zaretskii, 2014/02/25
- Re: Quoting special characters, Paul Eggert, 2014/02/25
- Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Tim Murphy, 2014/02/25
- Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Frank Heckenbach, 2014/02/25
- Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Paul Smith, 2014/02/26
- Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Tim Murphy, 2014/02/26
- Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Frank Heckenbach, 2014/02/26
- Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Paul Smith, 2014/02/26
- Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths),
Tim Murphy <=
- Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Eli Zaretskii, 2014/02/25
- Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Frank Heckenbach, 2014/02/25
- Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Eli Zaretskii, 2014/02/25
- Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Eli Zaretskii, 2014/02/25
- Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Frank Heckenbach, 2014/02/25
- Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Eli Zaretskii, 2014/02/25
- Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Frank Heckenbach, 2014/02/25
- Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Frank Heckenbach, 2014/02/22
- Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Eli Zaretskii, 2014/02/22
- Re: Quoting special characters (was: Re: Possible solution for special characters in makefile paths), Frank Heckenbach, 2014/02/23