Re: [9fans] Frogs?
Thanks to all for very informative replies! :) Cheers, Kare
Re: [9fans] Frogs?
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 tosplit 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 Owenswrote: > > 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 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 >> >> >> >>
Re: [9fans] Frogs?
As an historical note the space character was once a frog. Rob told me that he removed it from isfrog just to see if this broke anything. It didn't. brucee On 7 October 2015 at 02:25, Kare Nuortevawrote: > > Thanks to all for very informative replies! :) > > > Cheers, > Kare > >
Re: [9fans] Frogs?
On 5 October 2015 at 17:42, Kare Nuortevawrote: > Could someone please explain what is a frog in a filename? It's many decades old, and not restricted to file names. It originally referred to an unexpected non-ASCII character in a text file: "There's a frog in my file!" It was sometimes put there by a buggy editor or corrupt file system. By extension it's a character, still usually unprintable (before Unicode fonts), that doesn't belong in its context. It's a bit of a stretch to call "/" a frog, but that's just the name of the array.
[9fans] Frogs?
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
Re: [9fans] Frogs?
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 Nuortevawrote: > > > 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 > > > >
Re: [9fans] Frogs?
chars that, by convention, convey information in-band when dealing with files (e.g. '/'); they require quoting when used in file names. On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Kare Nuortevawrote: > > > 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 > > > > >