although this is all true, in the context of my comment needsquote() in libfmt is more relevant.
the rc shell has a well defined quoting convention, but this is not shared by awk or sed. Thus to split the fields in du's output you need something that understands this convention, like the shell itself. -Steve > On 5 Oct 2015, at 17:54, Nick Owens <misch...@offblast.org> wrote: > > http://code.9front.org/hg/plan9front/file/tip/sys/src/9/port/chan.c?style=gitweb#l1637 > >> On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Kare Nuorteva <kare.nuort...@me.com> wrote: >> >> >> Hello, >> >> I've bumped into frogs a few times while lurking on this list, but cannot >> make much sense out of it. Could someone please explain what is a frog in a >> filename? >> >> Cheers, >> Kare >> >> >> >>
