Shell hell

[torgo_x]

Dear Log,
Shell quoting hurts my brain:
% cat args #!/usr/bin/perl # Show what arguments we've been given if(@ARGV) { print "\t", (@ARGV == 1) ? "1 argument:\n" : (@ARGV . " arguments:\n"), map "\t\t«$_»\n", @ARGV; } else { print "Zero arguments.\n"; } % args "a b" c 2 arguments: «a b» «c» % cat passing-along-

Comments

[pne]

Now play around with setting IFS to something else (specifically, something that doesn't contain \x20).

*shrugs* Shell quoting makes spaces significant, and the rest is for hysterical raisins.

hhhhhh

[torgo_x]

Oh man. That idea hurts like a kidney stone.

Now, I'm not saying I'd use Scheme as a shell-- but now I reaaaally understand what makes
people want to do that!