Re: Proposal to add /usr/bin/shquote

[James Chacon <jmc%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Sep 5, 2008, at 3:27 PM, Aleksej Saushev wrote:

> Daniel Horecki <morr+lists%morr.pl@localhost> writes:
>
> > Je Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:19:20 +0400 Aleksej Saushev <asau%inbox.ru@localhost>
> > scribis:
> >
> > > Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost> writes:
> > >
> > > > I often find the need, in shell scripts, to escape arguments to be
> > > > passed to other shell commands.  I'd like to add a /usr/bin/shquote
> > > > command as a simple wrapper around shquotev(3) to do this.
> > >
> > > That just reminds me...
> > >
> > > Why not import real programming language for that? TCL, for  
> > > instance.
> >
> > Why not perl/ruby/python/haskell/clisp?
>
> Because not perl/ruby/python/haskell/clisp.
>
> > All are too big and not necessary IMHO.
>
> TCL isn't.

TCL was also never intended as a stand alone scripting language....

James