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Re: HFS paths (was Tell Blocks Considered Harmful)
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Re: HFS paths (was Tell Blocks Considered Harmful)


  • Subject: Re: HFS paths (was Tell Blocks Considered Harmful)
  • From: Doug McNutt <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 10:30:16 -0700

And so we are back to another longstanding question: (POSIX file "<unix path>") yields an object of class "furl", while ((POSIX file "<unix path>") as file) is a "file specification"...

An curiosity, that word "file". In many scripts it implies that whatever follows it is to be converted to an alias. But here, I guess it should be looked at as UNIX_file.


And . . .

There are cases in real UNIX that require a trailing solidus to imply a directory

scp  $HOME/somefile  FarAway:/home/me/

requires that last solidus because scp (secure copy) needs to know that it should use the same filename as the source as opposed to changing the name to "me" during the transfer and storing the result in /home/ er /home. (That can really happen if directory me doesn't exist.)

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References: 
 >Re: Tell Blocks Considered Harmful (was Re: open for access) (From: Richard Rönnbäck <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Tell Blocks Considered Harmful (was Re: open for access) (From: Axel Luttgens <email@hidden>)
 >Re: HFS paths (was Tell Blocks Considered Harmful) (From: Chris Page <email@hidden>)
 >Re: HFS paths (was Tell Blocks Considered Harmful) (From: Axel Luttgens <email@hidden>)
 >Re: HFS paths (was Tell Blocks Considered Harmful) (From: KOENIG Yvan <email@hidden>)
 >Re: HFS paths (was Tell Blocks Considered Harmful) (From: Axel Luttgens <email@hidden>)
 >Re: HFS paths (was Tell Blocks Considered Harmful) (From: KOENIG Yvan <email@hidden>)
 >Re: HFS paths (was Tell Blocks Considered Harmful) (From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: HFS paths (was Tell Blocks Considered Harmful) (From: Axel Luttgens <email@hidden>)

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