Hello,
I've bumped into frogs a few times while lurking on this list, but cannot make
much sense out of it. Could someone please explain what is a frog in a filename?
Cheers,
Kare
http://code.9front.org/hg/plan9front/file/tip/sys/src/9/port/chan.c?style=gitweb#l1637
On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Kare Nuorteva wrote:
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> Hello,
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> I've bumped into frogs a few times while lurking on this list, but cannot
> make much sense out of it. Could someone please explain what is
chars that, by convention, convey information in-band when dealing with
files (e.g. '/'); they require quoting when used in file names.
On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Kare Nuorteva wrote:
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>
> Hello,
>
> I've bumped into frogs a few times while lurking on this list, but cannot
> make much sens
On 5 October 2015 at 17:42, Kare Nuorteva wrote:
> Could someone please explain what is a frog in a filename?
It's many decades old, and not restricted to file names. It originally
referred to an unexpected non-ASCII character in a text file:
"There's a frog in my file!" It was sometimes put th
although this is all true, in the context of my comment needsquote() in libfmt
is more relevant.
the rc shell has a well defined quoting convention, but this is not shared by
awk or sed. Thus tosplit the fields in du's output you need something that
understands this convention, like the she
