IPv6 address/port format

[Nathan Dorfman]

On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 12:02:51PM -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> 
> Nathan Dorfman <nathan@rtfm.net> writes:
> > [ and ] are metacharacters in the POSIX-specified standard Unix shell;
> > as well as bash, bash2, ksh, csh, tcsh and zsh. Since this list
> > comprises something like 99% of all Unix shells used, characters
> > marked as reserved by *all* of them are a really bad choice.
> 
> Who the hell cares? No one is going to enter in address literals
> except in extreme circumstances anyway. They're a mile long.

Bull. Network administrators will still have to deal with addresses.
They'd probably also prefer to be able to do this from the Unix shell
without a menagerie of backslashes and single quotes.

> .pm

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