From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jny81-0005S5-SO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:40:26 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EA7BFE0539; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:40:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6521E053D for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:40:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B7FE6770D for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:40:23 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -0.54 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.54 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.992, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1, RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO=2.067] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id tZgxWY4N9oiN for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:40:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6255663EE for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:40:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Jny7d-00032h-Qx for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:40:01 +0000 Received: from 82.153.195.102 ([82.153.195.102]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:40:01 +0000 Received: from slong by 82.153.195.102 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:40:01 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Steve Long Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: escaping variables in sed expressions Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:39:20 +0100 Message-ID: References: <48048E31.6040209@gentoo.org> <3c32af40804150405qb2bbfbavb8d7ce575dbc2278@mail.gmail.com> <20080415141753.GS29406@der-frank.org> <20080415171606.6e2a900a.genone@gentoo.org> <20080416171751.GT29406@der-frank.org> <20080416182405.651698dd@snowcone> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.153.195.102 User-Agent: KNode/0.10.9 Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 0245cf32-b48a-4d26-b2fc-d14da7bdc3fb X-Archives-Hash: 3a4d68b3f6d481dbce28aa5040d4436f Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > 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... > ..but it's fine as a terminator, if you know what you're doing. -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list