Re: Proposal to add /usr/bin/shquote

[Aleksej Saushev <asau%inbox.ru@localhost>]

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.


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