Re: Proposal to drop MKCATPAGES

[David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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
dholland%netbsd.org@localhost