Re: Some useful primitives: escape (and quoting variables), lastwords (for recursivity)… and files with spaces in them?

2018-05-21 Thread Paul Smith
On Mon, 2018-05-21 at 18:13 +0200, Garreau, Alexandre wrote: > > There was a long discussion here a few years ago about a new > > capability for handling special characters in filenames possible, > > and I have a partial implementation that was not completed, of a > > possible way to do this. > >

Re: Some useful primitives: escape (and quoting variables), lastwords (for recursivity)… and files with spaces in them?

2018-05-21 Thread Garreau, Alexandre
On 2018-05-21 at 11:16, Paul Smith wrote: > On Mon, 2018-05-21 at 08:12 +0200, Garreau, Alexandre wrote: >> Also I was wondering… would there be some possible mechanism so that >> a filename with spaces in it might be appropriatedly treated by >> implicit rules? or is it intrinsic to, say,

Some useful primitives: escape (and quoting variables), lastwords (for recursivity)… and files with spaces in them?

2018-05-21 Thread Garreau, Alexandre
Hi, I began, for automatic variables containing only one filename, to put them between simple quotes, and to try to escape my filenames in my makefiles, so that if one day someone tries to use my makefiles for files with special chars in them like spaces or quotes. Also, using quotes is