On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 06:04:41AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Michael J Gruber wrote: > > > echo "a\"b\n\"c" > > a"b > > "c > > > > t7810.87 breaks with dash because of this. Escaping the \n does not make > > the test work with both either. > > This seems to have slipped by because testing it requires USE_LIBPCRE > to be set. Thanks for catching it. Yeah, I test with dash, too, and missed it because I hadn't enabled pcre. > > So I'd like to know which one's right > > and (independently) how to make it work for both... > > Both are right. The simplest fix is to use printf, as in > > printf "%s\n" "a\"b\n\"c" > > See [1] and [2]. Yep. We've dealt with this before and used printf as the solution. E.g.: 938791c (git-rebase--interactive.sh: use printf instead of echo to print commit message, 2010-07-22) 4d2e283 (git-am: re-fix the diag message printing, 2009-01-18) a23bfae (More echo "$user_message" fixes., 2007-05-26) 4b7cc26 (git-am: use printf instead of echo on user-supplied strings, 2007-05-25) -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html