From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] escaping variables in sed expressions
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:24:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080416182405.651698dd@snowcone> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080416171751.GT29406@der-frank.org>
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On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:17:51 +0200
Frank Gruellich <frank@der-frank.org> wrote:
> I was not able to create a filename or path containing it. (Anyone
> else?)
Unix file names can't contain / or null.
> Unfortunately that stupid sed does not work with \x00 as
> delimiter...
Nor do most Unix apps, since they tend to be written in C using all
those C library functions that work on null terminated strings.
Null introduces far more problems than it solves, character-wise...
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Ciaran McCreesh
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-16 17:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-15 11:14 [gentoo-dev] escaping variables in sed expressions Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
2008-04-15 11:05 ` Santiago M. Mola
2008-04-15 11:14 ` Fabian Groffen
2008-04-15 14:17 ` Frank Gruellich
2008-04-15 15:16 ` Marius Mauch
2008-04-16 17:17 ` Frank Gruellich
2008-04-16 17:24 ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2008-04-17 4:31 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2008-04-17 5:49 ` Rémi Cardona
2008-04-18 0:45 ` Duncan
2008-04-17 9:51 ` Santiago M. Mola
2008-04-18 1:05 ` Duncan
2008-04-17 10:40 ` Olivier Galibert
2008-04-21 15:39 ` Steve Long
2008-04-15 11:29 ` [gentoo-dev] " David Leverton
2008-04-15 13:10 ` Ulrich Mueller
2008-04-15 14:52 ` Petteri Räty
2008-04-15 15:29 ` Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
2008-04-15 15:35 ` Mike Frysinger
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