Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Having said that, are we sure that >> >> printf "add bar\0initial" >> >> works per specification, or merely works by accident in some >> implementation? > > Since the backslash is not followed by $ ` " \ <newline> it is not > special to the shell. Yeah, but I wasn't worried about what shell does in the first place. I was worried about what printf(1) does. -- 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