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Re: realpath quoting

From Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: realpath quoting
Date 2024-05-03 01:50 +0200
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On Fri, May 03, 2024 at 07:42:20AM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote:
> 
> On 3/5/24 07:29, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > > The spaces without quotes cause problems with subsequent processing.
> > Then the subsequent processing has bugs in it.  Fix them.
> > 
> > > Can realpath or other utility return a quoted pathname?
> > That would be extremely counterproductive.  Do not look for kludges to
> > work around your script's bugs.  Fix the bugs instead.
> > 
> > Start with<https://mywiki.wooledge.org/Quotes>.
> > 
> 
> You don't see a problem that ls produces quoted filenames and realpath
> doesn't?

Oh Jesus, don't get me started on ls.

We have a whole page on that.  <https://mywiki.wooledge.org/ParsingLs>

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realpath quoting jeremy ardley <jeremy.ardley@gmail.com> - 2024-05-03 01:10 +0200
  Re: realpath quoting Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-05-03 01:40 +0200
    Re: realpath quoting Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-05-03 01:50 +0200
    Re: realpath quoting jeremy ardley <jeremy.ardley@gmail.com> - 2024-05-03 01:50 +0200
  Re: realpath quoting David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-05-03 04:20 +0200
    Re: realpath quoting Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-05-03 04:20 +0200
      Re: realpath quoting Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-05-03 05:00 +0200
        Re: realpath quoting jeremy ardley <jeremy.ardley@gmail.com> - 2024-05-03 06:40 +0200
          Re: realpath quoting Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-05-03 13:10 +0200
            Re: realpath quoting jeremy ardley <jeremy.ardley@gmail.com> - 2024-05-03 13:40 +0200
              Re: realpath quoting Sirius <sirius@trudheim.com> - 2024-05-03 13:50 +0200
              Re: realpath quoting David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-05-03 21:20 +0200
          Re: realpath quoting Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-05-03 17:20 +0200
        Re: realpath quoting David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-05-03 07:40 +0200
          Re: realpath quoting Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2024-05-04 15:30 +0200
            Re: realpath quoting Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-05-04 16:00 +0200
      Re: realpath quoting David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-05-03 07:20 +0200
        Re: realpath quoting Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-05-03 13:10 +0200
          Re: realpath quoting David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-05-03 20:50 +0200
  Re: realpath quoting Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2024-05-03 06:50 +0200

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