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<title>Interacting with the Shell</title>
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<h2 class="title"><a name="shell">Interacting with the Shell</a></h2>
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<div class="content">
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Certain characters are interpreted by the shell. For example, the
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"&". If you wish to include the & in a task description,
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you need to escape it, so the shell doesn't interpret it. For
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example:
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<pre><code>% task add Buy bread & milk</code></pre>
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This command is an error because of the &. The shell will
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consider this to be two commands:
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<pre><code>% task add Buy bread &
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% milk</code></pre>
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<p>
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The shell treats the & character as an indicator that the
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command is complete and should be run in the background. Then the
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shell considers "milk" to be a command all by itself. Which it is
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not. One way to get around this is to individually escape the &
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character:
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</p>
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<pre><code>% task add Buy bread \& milk</code></pre>
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<p>
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Another is to quote the entire description, with either ' or "
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characters:
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</p>
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<pre><code>% task add "Buy bread & milk"</code></pre>
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<p>
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Task itself interprets the commands, and it too can make mistakes.
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For example, any colon : character will be interpreted by task as a
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delimiter between an attribute name and its value. Currently there
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is no workaround for this.
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Copyright 2006-2009, P. Beckingham. All rights reserved.
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