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Re: realpath quoting

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On 5/3/24 04:34, jeremy ardley wrote:
> 
> On 3/5/24 19:06, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>> I would suggest that if you need to use a debugger to track down a bug
>> in your program, you should use filenames that don't require quoting
>> when you set up your tests.
> 
> 1970's style static test cases are not relevant here.
> 
> In the real world...  I download files generated by another system that 
> are constantly changing content and with names I don't control.
> 
> My workflow is to download a new file from a remote source and then run 
> my processor over it.
> 
> As a necessary consequence I need the fully quoted or escaped file name 
> of the new file to feed to the processor/debugger.
> 
> I can obviously add an extra step to the process to convert the new file 
> name to something acceptable before processing. However, my question was 
> how to avoid that extra step by getting fully quoted filenames to process.
> 


So, you are copying and pasting file names via some clipboard?  emacs(1) 
might have a way to put a filter into that process, but I am unaware of 
a similar feature using Xfce and Terminal (my platform).


I have tried renaming files in similar situations, but you will want to 
rename them everywhere if you use rsync(1).


What if you downloaded files to a directory with a well-formed name and 
added a feature to your script to process files that appear in that 
directory?


David

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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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