Re: sh(1) read: add LINE_MAX safeguard and "-n" option

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On Fri, Sep 27, 2024 at 02:04:59PM -0400, Mouse wrote:
> >>>             If the -r option not was given, and the two character sequence `\'
> >>                               ^^^^^^^                             ^
> >>                               was not                             s
> 
> > But for the 's', no, English is just weird for things like that.
> 
> Yeah.  When you're using a count noun with a number as a compound
> adjective, it uses the singular form of the noun, even if the
> number-plus-noun as a compound noun would use the plural form.  "Two
> characters", but "two-character sequence" (written, above, without the
> dash; I'm including the dash because I think it's clearer that way).
> Similarly, "three cars", but "a three-car garage"; "this keyboard has
> 94 keys" but "this is a 94-key keyboard".
> 
> I have no idea why, except "history".

Perhaps because of the spoken language: "two-cars garage" could be
confused with "two cars' garage" (the garage for these two cars) to be
contrasted with a garage able to accommodate two cars?

I will finally learn english some day ;-)
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