Am 07.04.2017 um 08:30 schrieb Jeff King:
Probably it's "read" which does backslash expansion, but nothing else.
Just grepping git-submodule.sh, some of the "read" calls should probably
be "read -r"
http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/commands/builtin/read has this to say:
Essentially all you need to know about -r is to ALWAYS use it. The
> exact behavior you get without -r is completely useless even for weird
> purposes. It basically allows the escaping of input which matches
> something in IFS, and also escapes line continuations. It's explained
> pretty well in the POSIX read[1] spec.
[1]
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/read.html#tag_20_109
(That's the kind of stuff that makes me shy of using shell scripts -
always yet another surprise in waiting...)