On 01-Nov-2007, at 21:34, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
find . \( -name 'foo*' -o -name '*bar' \) -prune -o -exec rm {} \;
There's no nested quotes there. That's barely quoting heck.
It's when you find yourself faced with 'if("'"$A"'" = $0)' and you
need to put THAT inside `` and you're trying to remember if
"`..."..."...`" parses as ("`...")(...)("...`") or ("`(..."..."...)
`") (IYKWIMAITYD) and you decide to shove part of it into a shell
function to avoid the problem. THEN you're in quoting hell.
Because they didn't invent shell functions until the '80s.
