Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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. Oh, I was confused becaused you mentioned the C case where the \NNN interpretation is done by the compiler, not printf(3). Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." -- 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