
12 Sep
2005
12 Sep
'05
4:56 p.m.
I discovered that the architecture dependent directory names in $HOME/.slime/fasl/ contain "non-standard" characters for Unix file names. For example: /homedir/quam/.slime/fasl/cmu-snapshot 2005-09 (19b)-linux-x86 I understand why this is the case, but it can be somewhat annoying because of the difficulty in properly "escaping" those names in the various Unix shells. For example, find . -name '*.x86f' | xargs grep '(defun ' grep: ./cmu-snapshot: No such file or directory grep: 2005-09: No such file or directory Admittedly, this is not a good example, but consider: find . -name '*.x86f' | xargs rm This wouldn't be a problem with if we had something like the Scheme-Shell (scsh), but ...