Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 15:35:34 -0400 From: Bill Fumerola <billf@chimesnet.com> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.org, Archie Cobbs <archie@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/ifconfig ifconfig.c Message-ID: <20000719153534.D51462@jade.chc-chimes.com> In-Reply-To: <6828.964034781@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>; from sheldonh@uunet.co.za on Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 09:26:21PM %2B0200 References: <20000719152039.B51462@jade.chc-chimes.com> <6828.964034781@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>
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On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 09:26:21PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> > The main reason is that ? is a (for all intents and purposes) a reserved
> > shell character and typing:
> >
> > foo -\?
>
> Right, that makes sense, I suppose. I must admit that I've never been
> bitten by this myself, but I suppose it'd be problematic if one had a
> file in the working directory whose name was composed of two characters,
> the first of which was a dash.
>
> Talk about edge cases. :-)
[hawk-billf] /usr/ports/net/ethereal/pkg > ls -?
zsh: no matches found: -?
[hawk-billf] /usr/ports/net/ethereal/pkg > ls -\?
ls: illegal option -- ?
usage: ls [-ACFGHLPRTWacdfgiklnoqrstu1] [file ...]
It's worse then just the edge case, the shell is going to try and expand
it no matter what.
> But I hear you. It was a bit presumptuous to call the way I do things
> "the UNIX way" just because I can't remember who taught it to me. :-)
We all make mistakes, and I made this one too :->
--
Bill Fumerola - Network Architect, BOFH / Chimes, Inc.
billf@chimesnet.com / billf@FreeBSD.org
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