>>5,6
Today, I tried to make one of my uglier Bourne scripts neater by breaking up a very long
find command line into separate variables. The command line included many glob characters which I wanted to pass to
find without expansion. There was a decent amount of duplicated information in the the arguments, so I also added a few short
for loops to approximate Bash's brace expansion.
I wasted almost an hour on this before I concluded that there was no way to do what I wanted without adding enough escaping and requoting to render the variable text totally unreadable, thus defeating my original purpose.
I guess it's about time I went down to the bookstore and got myself a copy of the Camel book.