[arch-dev-public] 2007.08 Don't Panic Isos release

Aaron Griffin aaronmgriffin at gmail.com
Mon Aug 6 12:25:13 EDT 2007


On 8/6/07, Damir Perisa <damir.perisa at solnet.ch> wrote:
> Monday 06 August 2007, Aaron Griffin wrote:
>  | On 8/6/07, Damir Perisa <damir.perisa at solnet.ch> wrote:
>  | > if it breaks, it needed fixing anyway. no?
>  |
>  | You're 100% correct. I'll make a deal with you. Please test and
>  | patch all software that potentially balks on this, and I will
>  | concede that you were correct.
>
> i just started a poll that everybody emails me of problems found
> regarding apostrophe quote char inside a filename. i will collect
> them and post bugs personally.
>
>  | But seriously, even bash completion may fail on that... I remember
>  | a few filename chars making completion spit out a few hundred
>  | errors.
>
> ~/tmp|508> echo "bla bla bla" > "test's test"
> ~/tmp|509> more t<tab>
> ~/tmp|509> more test\'s\ test
> bla bla bla
>
> seems to work fine

Ok, you win. Man, this is such a silly discussion. I wish legitimate
Arch stuff got this much effort, but that's what we refer to as a
"pipe dream".




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