On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 11:43:45AM -0400, John Leser wrote: > 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 \).
Thing is: I just tried it, and with ksh93 it doesn't work.
