Re: Fwd: Why is execlineb called execlineb and not execline?

From: Berne Campbell <berne.campbell_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 00:14:10 +1100

Great thanks for the answer.

On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 11:10 PM, Laurent Bercot <ska-skaware_at_skarnet.org>
wrote:

> I see the project is called execline but then the executable is called
>> execlineb, why isn't it called execline?
>>
>> I've read the docs and I still don't get it.
>>
>
> There was an "execline" binary at some point, with a syntax that closely
> matched the syntax you'd get writing an argv directly. There were no
> braces, so writing blocks was pretty horrible. So I tried another parser
> with a slightly different syntax, and named it execlineb (execline+braces).
> Everybody agreed the new syntax was much better, so I eventually
> deprecated the first "execline" command.
>
> --
> Laurent
>
>
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