Re: Do shell script and spaces in path
Re: Do shell script and spaces in path
- Subject: Re: Do shell script and spaces in path
- From: Chris Page <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 17:02:19 -0700
On Friday, April 19, 2002, at 04:20 PM, Christopher Nebel wrote:
On Friday, April 19, 2002, at 02:39 PM, Giuliano Gavazzi wrote:
The point was that (if you are used to C/C++) the escape
characted should give no effect when it is not needed ("ls
\afile" is the same as "ls afile"), that is it should be only
effective to escape special characters, including itself. (This
is the case of C/C++ but not Java).
For what it's worth, I agree with you for roughly the same
reasons. There's a bug filed to make AppleScript's backslash
sequences act more like C's.
On the other hand, if you allow backslashes to be ignored in front
of non-special characters, that precludes adding new special
characters in the future without potentially breaking existing
software.
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Chris Page - Mac OS Lead, Palm Desktop - Palm, Inc.
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