On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 04:19:42PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > > Is "\n" portable to all shells (i.e., do you need '\n')? It works with > > bash and dash, which are by far the most common, but who knows what evil > > lurks in the heart of Sun? > > You mean the "\n" in printf? Yes that is specified in POSIX. > Without the "\n" printf will act like echo -n (which incidentally > is forbidden by POSIX). No, I meant would the shell, while interpolating a double-quoted string "\n", always preserve the string and pass the backslash and 'n' to printf? Clearly \\ and \" get interpolated, but I don't know the rules for "unrecognized" backslash sequences. -Peff - 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
