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From: andrew@alice.UUCP (Andrew Hume)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: sh quotes: un-ambiguous description needed.
Summary: mk does.
Keywords: sh, quoting
Message-ID: <8206@alice.UUCP>
Date: 15 Sep 88 22:45:03 GMT
References: <854@yunexus.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ
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mk implements shell quoting correctly (or so i believe).
there is a c function to do it. also, the latest mk tutorial
has a section which annunciates the rules for quoting in a reasonably
clear way. the korn shell book is reputed to have a decent definition of
quoting but i have not read it.