On Sunday, 25 de December de 2011 05.14.38, [email protected] wrote: > The XDG Base Directory Specification states that the environment variables > $XDG_DATA_DIRS and $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS both have a list of paths that are > separated by a colon (':') character. How should the values be interpreted > if the path contains colons? Should the colon be escaped? How about the > escape character, should that be escaped then too (e.g. '\\')? Or are > colons allowed in the path at all?
How does PATH do it?
But I guess the question should be: is it wise to use paths that contain a
colon?
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