-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to DI Oliver Maurhart on 12/11/2006 1:03 AM: > > No. Actually the $'\t' works! It's pretty cool. I'm into Linux for > several years now, but everyday you get surprised by such small goodies. > Didn't know of that one.
Both bash and zsh support this extension, but yes, it is not specified by POSIX. > > On the other side, I wonder, if this is also available on other shells > like csh, korn-shell or some XYZ-Shell. > > So I still believe that sort should be capable of handling tabs on its > own and not to depend on a user's shell feature to correctly pass on > this literal. Ctrl-V is pretty much the standard default in UNIX terminals for quoting the next character typed, which means the sequence [ctrl-v] then [tab] is almost universally accepted, regardless of whether you use bash, ksh, ash, or even csh. With ctrl-v, it is the terminal doing the quoting and not your shell. And if you don't like ctrl-v, then play with 'stty lnext'. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFfh3L84KuGfSFAYARAiV0AJ9M2niAPYvjZW/hNd48UOQe8PGVxgCeLr5d kj0ZnfWcLlxzdjaGHmuVBrM= =1JN4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
