2012/4/19 ольга крыжановская <[email protected]>
> Here's one of Roland's old proposals:
>
> RFE: Extend ksh93's printf %q to accept a modifier which defines the
> quoting mode. Supported modes should be:
>
> %(kshliteral)q same as existing %q
> %(shliteral)q quote string with '\' (including spaces) that a POSIX
> shell (and even the old bourne shell) can accept it
> %(xml)q convert string into an xml literal (same as %H)
> %(egrep)q convert string into a literal accepted plainly by egrep
> (e.g. things like '[', ']', '(', ')' etc. are quoted)
> %(grep)q convert string into a literal accepted plainly by grep (e.g.
> things like '[', ']', etc. are quoted)
> %(agrep)q, %(xgrep)q convert string into a literal accepted plainly by
> grep -X/-A (e.g. things like '[', ']', '(', ')' etc. are quoted)
> %(urlencode)q convert string into a literal accepted plainly as URL
> (e.g. space gets encoded as '+', '!' as '%21', '*' as '%2A' etc.)
> The modifers scheme will allow future extensions easily.
>
I like the idea. `%#q' added in 93u+ for CSV format is not very intuitive
to me and `%(csv)q' would look better. :)
>
> Comments welcome, I can try to make the patches if David and Glenn
> like the idea.
>
> Olga
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