On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 06:10:10AM +0700, Robert Elz wrote: > | (after all, sed has something similar) > > Yes, but its needs are different, as it can read all of that > from a file, not just from the arg list.
True. > | I made it specifically recognize only \n and \t (and not \\ or > | anything else) to minimize the chances of it breaking anything. > > Given that we now have (since at least NetBSD 8) the ability to > easily generate any of these chars from the shell, I wouldn't > go adding magic support for them in anything that doesn't already > have that, at least for processing arg strings. So, I'd prefer > it if you abandoned that patch. Reasonable enough. So the example should be changed to lam file1 -S $'\n' file2 file3 file4 ? Someone(TM) should add $'' to csh and tcsh; it seems handy and doesn't conflict with anything. -- David A. Holland dholl...@netbsd.org