Re: file as a directory

[Martin Waitz]

hoi :)

On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 10:13:57PM +0100, Christian Mayrhuber wrote:
> Regarding namespace unification + XPath:
> For files: cat /etc/passwd/[. = "joe"] should work like in XPath.
> But what to do with directories?
> Would 'cat /etc/[. = "passwd"]' output the contents of the passwd file
> or does it mean to output the file '[. = "passwd"]'?
> If the first is the case then you have to prohibit filenames looking 
> like '[foo bar]'.

perhaps we should create a XML/XPath shell and a replacement for the
textutils package instead of implementing all these utilities inside the
kernel.

Then convert /etc/passwd to /etc/passwd.xml and all is well.

-- 
Martin Waitz

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