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Re: clean the manual of unnecessary quote marks

From
SRSverre Rabbelier <alturin@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 28, 2008, 06:25 UTC
Message-ID
<bd6139dc0811272225ybc8aa21lf67a0f226f5d2e53@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 03:09,  <jidanni@jidanni.org> wrote:
Show 5 quoted lines
> $ git-cat-file "blob" 557db03
> which makes it look like the author is an expert in other things, but
> not the shell, where
> $ git-cat-file blob 557db03
> would be fine.
This I will agree with you, quoting blob is silly in this case...
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>Do you really type those extra quotes when nobody else
> is looking? Same even with
> $ echo "Silly example" >example
> Let's see, Of
> $ echo Silly example >example
> $ echo Silly example>example
> $ echo Silly example > example
> I'd pick the latter...

But I don't agree here, with echo I do always write the extra quotes when nobody is looking, I find your alternatives less clear than the original (with the quotes).

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Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier
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  1. jidanni@jidanni.orgNov 28, 2008
  2. Sverre RabbelierNov 28, 2008

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