Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 11:10:36AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > >> If you need to echo something that may have escapes in it, the portable >> way to do it is >> >> printf '%s\n' "$test" > > Ah, I see. I had thought the problem was coming from some dash > interpolation magic, but yes, it's just echo doing the conversion. And > POSIX is very clear that this is an implementation defined behavior. > Thanks very much for the response, Herbert. > > Junio, patch is below. I have no idea how prevalent this issue is within > our scripts, but this at least fixes the reported bug. Gaah. Ok, dash uses "echo -e" behaviour by default. I guess we need to hunt allmost all "echo", as I suspect most of them (except the ones we use to do "echo $SHA1") have user strings somewhere. What a mess, but that is not your fault nor Herbert's. Thanks. - 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
