John Keeping <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > ... the following fixup is also needed to avoid relying on the shell > emitting a literal backslash when a backslash isn't followed by a known > escape character. > > -- >8 -- > > diff --git a/t/t3404-rebase-interactive.sh b/t/t3404-rebase-interactive.sh > index cbe36bf..84bd525 100755 > --- a/t/t3404-rebase-interactive.sh > +++ b/t/t3404-rebase-interactive.sh > @@ -947,7 +947,7 @@ test_expect_success 'rebase -i respects core.commentchar' ' > test_when_finished "git config --unset core.commentchar" && > cat >comment-lines.sh <<EOF && > #!$SHELL_PATH > -sed -e "2,\$ s/^/\\\\\\/" "\$1" >"\$1".tmp > +sed -e "2,\$ s/^/\\\\\\\\/" "\$1" >"\$1".tmp > mv "\$1".tmp "\$1" > EOF > chmod a+x comment-lines.sh && Yeek. If you used write_script with here-text that does not interpolate, write_script remove-all-but-the-first.sh <<\EOF sed -e '2,$s/^/\\/' <"$1" >"$1.tmp" && mv "$1.tmp" "$1" EOF the above would be much more readable. I am not sure if I understand what you meant by "literal backslash blah blah", though. -- 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