Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux

On 9/1/2024 3:03 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

I wrote:
 

If you avoid newlines in filenames, Posix shells can cope with anything
else if you set “IFS=$'\n'”.

 Sorry, no, it looks like the “$'...'” syntax for string literals is not
from Posix, it’s a Bash-ism.

Actually, dollar quotes were added to POSIX as of SUS Issue 8:
"2.2.4 Dollar-Single-Quotes
A sequence of characters starting with a <dollar-sign> immediately followed
by a single-quote ($') shall preserve the literal value of all characters up to
an unescaped terminating single-quote ('), with the exception of certain
<backslash>-escape sequences, as follows:
..."
<https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/>
--
Wayne