On 2015-12-20 12:41, Sam Edge wrote:
On 18/12/2015 13:06, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:
and (of all things!) contain blanks,
* rant mode on *
What's wrong with blanks?
The OS calls don't give a monkey's chuff so long as they're given
null-terminated C-strings. Tools like find, xargs etc. have options to
cope.
The biggest problem is that there are a lot of sloppily written shell
scripts out there that don't properly quote substitutions or that use
$*
instead of "$@" or that use command substitution where they should be
using pipes and "xargs" and "read". That's the fault of the scripts,
not
the OS/emulation layer.
* rant mode off *
Oh ... you know, I understand Rainer's sentiment ...
https://www.cygwin.com/ starts with:
CYGWIN
Get that ___Linux___ feeling - on Windows
...
Regards,
Henri
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