Re: shell scripts, spaces, and backslashes

2024-10-12 Thread Chet Ramey
On 10/11/24 3:41 PM, Bruno Haible wrote: Hi Chet, Hi, Bruno. I wrote: Stackoverflow [1] says that word-expansion must be avoided, because it does not support the spaces in arguments These two examples show how non-intuitive shell scripts behave, regarding spaces and backslashes in argumen

doc: Recommend string descriptors for application area like parsers

2024-10-12 Thread Bruno Haible via Gnulib discussion list
Just realized that string descriptors are also useful when handling NUL characters is not a requirement. 2024-10-12 Bruno Haible doc: Recommend string descriptors for application area like parsers. * doc/string-desc.texi (Handling strings with NUL characters): Mention