Package: procps
Version: 1:3.2.7-3
Severity: wishlist
When passing arguments to watch, characters unneccesarily needs to be
quoted twice. The nice commands implements this much "nicer".
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~> echo lala > a\ b
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~> nice ls a\ b
a b
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~> watch ls a\ b
ls: a: No such file or directory
ls: b: No such file or directory
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~> watch ls a\\ b
a b
I realize that the man page states that
Note that command is given to "sh -c" which means that you may need to
use extra quoting to get the desired effect.
but I think that this behaviour be changed.
Regards, Thue
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
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APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.20
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages procps depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libncurses5 5.5-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii lsb-base 3.1-23 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
Versions of packages procps recommends:
ii psmisc 22.3-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy
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