[jamming] jam shell

[Diane Holt]

Filenames with spaces are an abomination (as is case-insensitivity... can
you tell I'm not a Windoze fan? :)  But the shell can handle them -- you
just need to quote them.

Diane

On 3/29/07, Mildred <ml.mildred593 at online.fr> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I just had a thought.
>
> I like the jam syntax and I thought it would be great to replace our
> unix shell by something similar to jam.
>
> The main problem in the standard unix shell, I think, are the weird
> variable expansion rules that makes it difficult to write shell scripts.
> For example there is common bug, often shell scripts doesn't handle
> correctly filenames with spaces in them.
>
> Does anyone here about a such shell ?
>
> Mildred
>
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