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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com>
Cc: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>,         Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>,         gdb-patches ml <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Let "gcore" command accept a suffix argument
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>>>>> ">" == Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com> writes:

>> Agree with you.  Add " with variable make it oddness.
>> What about change it to others, like:
>> eval echo {++$a}

>> Or add " to simple string, like:
>> eval echo ++$a".core"
>> Or
>> eval echo ++$a'.core'

What do you think of the idea of making it printf-like?

Some other approach, like the above two, would be ok with me, provided
that quoting is treated properly -- it should be possible to write any
command using eval.  So, there must be some way to quote whatever
special characters are used by eval.

Tom