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On Saturday 17 September 2005 22:06, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> On Saturday 17 September 2005 01:15 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> > On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 12:56:37 +0200 "Fernando J. Pereda" |
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> > |
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> > <ferdy@g.o> wrote: |
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> > | On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 02:42:09AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> > | | Something strange I noticed... Some people are using funny quotes |
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> > | | and non breaking spaces in ebuilds. Some people are using weird |
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> > | | characters as substitution delimiters for sed. Don't! It will |
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> > | | break on many systems. I'm going to go and purge all of those, |
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> > | | UTF-8 or not, whenever my brain recovers. |
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> > | |
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> > | I hope ~ is not considered a weird character... if it is, tell me |
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> > | and I'll fix all my ebuilds. |
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> > No, ~ is fine. Anything with a value below 127 (don't use 127, it's |
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> > weird) that sed accepts is ok. |
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> in other words, ASCII characters are OK. if in doubt, just run `man |
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> ascii` and see if your character is in the table |
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You probably don't want to use the ascii control characters either |
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(anything below 32), although they should not give issues with people |
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they could cause havoc for terminals or annoy people (using the BELL |
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character as sed separator). |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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