On Monday 04 May 2009 15:46:59 jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> writes: > > quotes inside -- [^" "] -- works. But the backslash approach you used > > is probably the clearest way to write it. > > Anyways, it should be mentioned in the man page's [...] discussion, even > though legally one could say it is probably already mentioned, though > scattered around the man page.
i dont think so. if we make a special exception here, we need to reproduce random sections of shell quoting rules in many many sections. -mike
