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From: | Nathan Phillips <nathan AT ug2 DOT sthughs DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk> |
Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Subject: | Re: Forgive my ignorance, but can someone answer a question for me? |
Date: | Thu, 27 Feb 1997 19:43:18 +0000 |
Organization: | Oxford University |
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Message-ID: | <Pine.LNX.3.95.970227194050.2430B-100000@ug2.sthughs.ox.ac.uk> |
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Reply-To: | Nathan DOT Phillips AT St-Hughs DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk |
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To: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com |
DJ-Gateway: | from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, Kurt Skauen wrote: > Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote: > >correct, I think: the shell has no business knowing which arguments are > >filenames and which aren't. Otherwise it would collapse, e.g., Sed > >commands like s/foobar//. > So what are the 'quoting' characters for? To stop wildcard expansion, shell variable expansion, redirection symbols, etc. ie shell assumes names with wildcards in are filenames. | | | | |\ | _ |- |_ _. _ | \| (_| |_ | ) (_| | ) - Nathan DOT Phillips AT St-Hughs DOT oxford DOT ac DOT uk char *p="char *p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}
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