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Article #5Re: POSIX Update: Shell and Utilities.
From: Karl Heuer
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 1990 20:19
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 1990 20:19
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In article <1990Mar8.171918.16011@mks.com> eric@mks.com (Eric Gisin) writes: >In article <16108@haddock.ima.isc.com>, karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes: >>My suggestion would be: $\ (dollar-backslash) begins a C-like escape, so we >>would have $\a $\b $\t $\n $\v $\f $\r, octal escapes like $\177, and hex >>escapes like $\x7F. [Also maybe $\^X for ctrl-X.] > >My idea for special strings is $"...", where "..." is a C-like string with >the ANSI C \ escapes. I like that one, too. More precisely, I think the semantics should be the same as a normal double-quoted string except that there are more backslash escapes (besides the four that currently exist: \$ \` \" \\). Is comp.std.unix a better place to discuss this? Karl W. Z. Heuer (karl@ima.ima.isc.com or harvard!ima!karl), The Walking Lint
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!spdcc!ima!haddock!karl From: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) Newsgroups: comp.org.usrgroup Subject: Re: POSIX Update: Shell and Utilities. Keywords: Draft 9 shell meta standard shell Message-ID: <16184@haddock.ima.isc.com> Date: 15 Mar 90 20:19:31 GMT References: <2567@mbf.UUCP> <EQ.1811xds13@ficc.uu.net> <16108@haddock.ima.isc.com> <1990Mar8.171918.16011@mks.com> Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) Organization: Interactive Systems, Cambridge, MA 02138-5302 Lines: 16