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I use » instead which has been working well for me (zsh + alacritty on archlinux)

• jeffbee 6y ago
  Is there any locale in which » is a shell metacharacter? Or is the set of shell metas fixed regardless of locale?
  • stonesweep 6y ago
    It was defined by POSIX [1] - of course anyone can extend POSIX functionality (and does), however I'm personally unaware of a locale which would break this specific convention / definition as it would almost assuredly break a lot of scripts in the world. [1] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009604499/utilities/xcu_chap02.html https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009604499/utilities/xc...
  • kaslai 6y ago
    It's a quoting character, so any environment that intends to use » semantically would probably not use it as a redirection character
    • jeffbee 6y ago
      Right, I was wondering if locales can influence the set of thing that behave as if they were ascii "