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Re: Inaccurate/incorrect description of the -b option in man ls(1)
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Eric Blake |
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Re: Inaccurate/incorrect description of the -b option in man ls(1) |
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Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:27:33 -0600 |
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On 03/18/2010 09:20 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> or maybe slightly longer, but still legible:
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>> s/octal /c-style/
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> Good idea. I like this one.
> Thanks.
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> I did it in your name. Ok?
Fine with me ;) The nice part is that octal escapes are still C-style
escapes; but we now have the wiggle room to change to BSD semantics, if
we ever wanted to (but I agree with your decision to keep things with \n
and not \012).
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Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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