Printf %q

[Björn Bidar <bjorn.bidar@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hey,

Bash and Coreutils support print %q to quote a string for it to be used as 
shell input.

"%q     ARGUMENT is printed in a format that can be reused as shell input, 
escaping non-printable characters with the proposed POSIX $'' syntax."

Dash also supports the $' ' syntax used by this. Where was this proposed to 
POSIX?

Would it make sense to also support printf %q dash already supports $' '.


Br,

Björn Bidar