Re: git: 15a1ba4a1c46 - main - adduser.sh: Add info which separator to use in the question itself

Benedict Reuschling <bcr@freebsd.org> writes:
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@freebsd.org> writes:
> > We could just as easily normalize the separator:
> That's true and would be the "src" way of solving it, rather than the
> "doc" way of describing what to do.
> I've seen instances where people even did "wheel, operator" (extra
> whitespace after the ",").

Yes, and my proposed change handles that transparently.

> I think when we actually tell people what to use as the separator,
> then we don't have to account for all kinds of varieties that users
> come up with to separate the groups (semicolons?).

Why not both?  We can easily support colons and semicolons as well:

    $ echo "foo,  bar:baz;     quux" | tr -s ':;,' ' '
    foo bar baz quux

DES
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