X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ian/git?a=blobdiff_plain;f=subdirmk%2FREADME;h=518dd087d853308b13e07aab805349714288d26e;hb=7202dbe71ef448a188f20e389802f7a110514c71;hp=6c9e76b626d1087ce23b8488b1b784ec2f67c06e;hpb=af507fbed84490ffc375a238d5ef58629f40ebc1;p=secnet.git diff --git a/subdirmk/README b/subdirmk/README index 6c9e76b..518dd08 100644 --- a/subdirmk/README +++ b/subdirmk/README @@ -231,14 +231,14 @@ empty string). &~/ => $(top_srcdir)/ In general: - = return subdir without delimiter (not allowed with `,' `;') - , pathname of this subdirectory in source tree - ; pathname of top level of source tree + = return subdir without delimiter (not allowed with `^' `~') + ^ pathname of this subdirectory in source tree + ~ pathname of top level of source tree / terminates the escape (needed if next is not lwsp or space) lwsp starts multi-word processing (see below) So pathname syntax is a subset of: - '&' [ ',' | ';' ] [ lc | '/' ] + '&' [ '^' | '~' ] [ lc | '/' ] && => && for convenience in shell runes \& => & general escaping mechanism