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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: version.c not updated correctly
Message-ID: <12318@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: 30 Aug 88 23:15:36 GMT
References: <3710@polya.Stanford.EDU> <2897@dunkshot.mips.COM>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
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Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh
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As quoted from <2897@dunkshot.mips.COM> by dce@mips.COM (David Elliott):
+---------------
| In article <3710@polya.Stanford.EDU> weening@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU (Joe Weening) writes:
| >		@version.sh; $(CC) -O -c version.c
| 
| This is a pain, but it's worse if you are running SVR3.1 (or have the new
| awk as the default awk).  version.sh was seemingly written by a shell
| quoting novice, since the part involving awk looks like:
| 
| 	... awk 'BEGIN { ... } \
| 	{ ... \
| 	  ... }' ...
| 
| Inside of quotes, it is not necessary to escape newlines for programs
| like awk and sed.  An escaped newline becomes a space.  The
+---------------

No, it's not braindamaged sh quoting; it's *csh* quoting.  (grrr)

++Brandon
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