Re: define (or translate, or substitute for) "interpolate": Re: rsync --delete

2020-10-19 Thread David Christensen
On Saturday, October 17, 2020 06:01:13 PM David Christensen wrote: I don't use Bourne arrays, and I barely understand how the shell interpolates lists and preserves items containing whitespace. When I can't figure it out, I switch to Perl. On 2020-10-19 05:29, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: I'm l

Re: define (or translate, or substitute for) "interpolate": Re: rsync --delete

2020-10-19 Thread rhkramer
Thanks! On Monday, October 19, 2020 08:55:01 AM to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > To be fair, you should quote wikipedia thoroughly. In the disambiguation > page [1] you do find the current use: > > String interpolation, in computing, the substitution of variables by > their values

Re: define (or translate, or substitute for) "interpolate": Re: rsync --delete

2020-10-19 Thread tomas
On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 08:29:32AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: [...] > Interpolation - Wikipedia > en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Interpolation > In the mathematical field of numerical analysis, interpolation is a type of > estimation, a method of ... variable, may be contrary to commonsense, i.

Re: define (or translate, or substitute for) "interpolate": Re: rsync --delete

2020-10-19 Thread rhkramer
On Monday, October 19, 2020 08:30:36 AM rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Oops, forgot to say that of course I recognize that language (and word > meanings) evolve. > > On Monday, October 19, 2020 08:29:32 AM rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Saturday, October 17, 2020 06:01:13 PM David Christensen wrote

define (or translate, or substitute for) "interpolate": Re: rsync --delete

2020-10-19 Thread rhkramer
On Saturday, October 17, 2020 06:01:13 PM David Christensen wrote: > I don't use Bourne arrays, and I barely understand how the shell > interpolates lists and preserves items containing whitespace. When I > can't figure it out, I switch to Perl. I'm looking for an alternate thing to think of wh