Re: [dev] List of tools for a CLI environment

[Bjartur Thorlacius]

On 10/27/11, Jimmy Tang <jt...@tchpc.tcd.ie> wrote:
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> On 26 Oct 2011, at 17:12, Kurt H Maier wrote:
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>> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Jimmy Tang <jt...@tchpc.tcd.ie> wrote:
>>> just showed this to a friend of mine and he cooked this up
>>>
>>> ls ${PATH//:/ }
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>> shit only works in bash
>>
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> oddly it worked in mksh which is the main shell that i tend to use. but yea,
> it is a bit of a bashism type thing there. in relation to spaces in a
> directory name, well that just sucks doesn't it ;)
>
Directory names are a sequence of arbitrary nonzero bytes. Parsing a
concatenation of arbitrary strings sucks. Directories can only be
separated by zero bytes.