Where can I read more about the “shells quoting convention”. What are those quoting convention? And about which shell are we talking here. Plan 9s rc(1) or Unix shells?
I downloaded lsr.c from https://swtch.com/lsr.c, compiled it: % 9c lsr.c % ls lsr.c lsr.o linked it: % 9l lsr.o % ls a.out lsr.c lsr.o and installed it: % mv a.out $home/bin/lsr all of this with the help of Plan 9 from User Space on an IMac. It works great. Next, I’ll write the manual page for it and I can forget du(1). Here are some usages for it: % ed `{lsr $PLAN9 | grep 'du\.c$'} 3101 % ed `{lsr $home/plan9os|grep 'du\.c$'} 5427 % ed `{lsr $home/plan92nd|grep 'DU\.C$'} 2308 This demonstrate nicely the bloat of du(1) over the times. Greetings Wolfgang > Am 30.09.2015 um 12:55 schrieb Mark van Atten <vanattenm...@gmail.com>: > > On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 12:07 PM, Steve Simon <st...@quintile.net> wrote: > >> NB: don't use sed or awk, they don't understand the shells >> quoting convention for filenames containing frogs. > > That's a good point. > > Mark. >
