Nicolas Williams wrote: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 03:16:49AM -0400, Peter Memishian wrote: >> Is this horse dead yet? > > No > >> Huh? The conclusion was already reached that the choice of separator is >> immaterial since it will be quoted anyway. Pursuant to that, John and I >> agreed to use ":" because it already has precedent with zoneadm(1M) (and >> has been a Unix separator character in other contexts such as /etc files >> since the dawn of time). > > How should scripts unescape escaped separators?
The "read" command handles this for you if you set IFS correctly (and the escape character is \). -John > > Nico
