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

From: Benedict Reuschling <bcr_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:05:48 UTC
Am 23.06.26 um 11:48 schrieb Dag-Erling Smørgrav:
> 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.
Alright, then let's do that to let the script be a bit more robust and 
user-friendly at the same time.
>
>> 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

Great, I like that. So we remove my addition again or how do we handle it?

Benedict