From: https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawmUWmB1M35_jviFvGPYDIH-a-_Al-7OrXM <Daniel@web>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:14:50 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Change suggestion to man page.
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X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/commitdiff_plain/e3304d234d59a5124ec94ea91161a80cfd3078e0?hp=204d29d9253d803fb1d03415b3f9fecbec3c82f6

Change suggestion to man page.
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diff --git a/doc/ikiwiki-calendar/discussion.mdwn b/doc/ikiwiki-calendar/discussion.mdwn
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0fa062413
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/ikiwiki-calendar/discussion.mdwn
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+Suggestion to change
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+    0 0 * * * ikiwiki-calendar ~/ikiwiki.setup "posts/* and !*/Discussion"
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+to
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+    0 0 * * * ikiwiki-calendar ~/ikiwiki.setup 'posts/* and !*/Discussion'
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+I ran into (for me) unexpected behaviour with double quotes, since when I tried it in the interactive shell, the "!" made it fail ([history expansion](http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls#echo_.22Hello_World.21.22)). I thought "aha, it should be escaped!", did so, and did not get any error messages, but it no longer functioned as intended (as per the earlier linked page).
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+The latter line will work everywhere, not just in environments without history expansion. I think trying a command manually before putting it into crontab is common, and this would avoid the possible user issue I ran into.