List and quotes in LFORMAT

Hi,

There seems to be a bug somewhere because no matter what I try I cannot seem to be able to put much needed quotes in the output from LFORMAT.

This is what I have basically:
list FILES ALL LFORMAT="command %s%s params" >file

Now, the filepaths generated by %s%s deperately need quotes because they have spaces and other crap in them, especially spaces.

However, none of this work:
LFORMAT="command "%s%s" params"
LFORMAT="command ""%s%s"" params"
LFORMAT="command "%s%s" params"
LFORMAT='command "%s%s" params'
LFORMAT='command %"%s%s%" params'
LFORMAT=command "%s%s" params
LFORMAT="command %q%s%s%q params"

And looking in the docs for List there doesn't seem to be any %param (like %q or \q or ")for inserting quotes which is quite a mistake!

I think this needs to be addressed for update3!

simply escape the quotes with a wildcard like this:

LFORMAT="command *"%s%s*" params"

A wildcard?? I would never have thought of that! I guess that's also documented somewhere.

Actually, it's not a wildcard on AmigaOS (here, "*" is "#?" as we all know) but actually indeed an escape character (instead of backslash "") for exactly this purpose.

It is documented in the AmigaDOS booklet or at least in the AmigaOS3.5-Book (or however, it was called by Haage & Partner).

regards,
nexus

@nexus

Asterisk ('*' character) can be used as a wildcard in AmigaDOS too if you enable this in DOS prefs.

As nexus says, * is not really a wildcard. At some point it was allowed as an equivalent for the #? wildcard because it is a wildcard on other systems. It is allowed as an option for OS4. See SYS:Prefs/DOS "Allow asterisk in pattern matching". At some point everyone realized that it was confusing to use * to represent the current console output, an escape character and a wildcard. That's why it is recomended that:
CONSOLE: be used to represent current window output instead of *
The standard Amiga wildcard #? be used instead of *

@AlexC

Awesome hint, thanks a lot, i was going mad myself looking up a solution for this

Cheers

@Raziel

Actually,*Amigans* should know!

.. but I also tend to forget it myself too often because I'm used to unix like systems, too. However, as long as the community is as helpful as here at amigans.net or eventually, the brain turns on its lights again, it's doesn't matter that much.

regards,
nexus